Effects of information search tasks on the comprehension of instructional text

Discourse Processes

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 163-186

  Rouet, Jean François ^a,c   Vidal Abarca, Eduardo ^b   Erboul, Alain Bert ^a   Millogo, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Laboratoire Langage and Cognition   (France)

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EID: 0012850979     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15326950DP3102_03     Document Type: Article

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