Comprehension monitoring of written discourse across early-to-middle adolescence

Reading and Writing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 207-240

  Hacker, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive monitoring; Comprehension monitoring; Comprehension process; Error detection; Metacognition; Reading processes; Text revision; Writing processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346575295     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007989901667     Document Type: Article

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