5. Concerning the TOEIC treatment which demonstrated the largest gain on the reading section, one of the instructors noted a positive
reaction among the students to one particular section of the text which dealt with finding details in written texts such as letters and
advertisements. It appears that this kind of material was completely new to them and, indeed, it is not part of the general high school
English curriculum in Japan. Thus not only did they actually learn some important skills here, these are skills which were not covered to
the same extent in the Business or General [-19-] treatments’ texts, although both of them did also contain some letters as part of their
instructional content.