Good-enough reading: Momentum and accuracy in the reading of complex fiction

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 428-458

  Mackey, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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