Facilitating reading comprehension with multimedia

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Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 503-519

  Chun, Dorothy M ^a   Plass, Jan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0030524904     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(96)00038-3     Document Type: Article

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