No correlation between inferencing causal relations and text comprehension?

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-56

  Beishuizen, Jos ^a   Le Grand, Julie ^a   Van Der Schalk, Janine ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0012003426     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4752(98)00021-8     Document Type: Article

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