The relations between children's reading comprehension, working memory, language skills and components of reading decoding in a normal sample

Reading and Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 7-9, 2005, Pages 583-616

  Goff, Deborah A ^a   Pratt, Chris ^a   Ong, Ben ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Language; Reading comprehension; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 28344451378     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-004-7109-0     Document Type: Article

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