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This article summarises the research conducted on children’s reading, in the Asia-Pacific region. The article is organised around a series of themes, which are common to a number of countries in the region. Judgements about the priority of researchable literacy problems are made somewhat tentatively, in view of the extraordinary diversity found in these countries — diversity in size, wealth, culture, literacy levels, research traditions, school resources, mother tongues and languages of instruction, to list a few of the more obvious differences. Thus, problems that are seen as pressing matters in one country, may be perceived as of marginal significance in others.
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Elley, W.B., Kam, H.W. (2003). Literacy and Reading. In: Keeves, J.P., et al. International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3368-7_40
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