Initial encounters with unfamiliar words in independent reading

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 304-338

  Harmon, Janis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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