A profile of causal development amongst ten-year-olds: Implications for reading and writing

Reading and Writing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 385-406

  Pretorius, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Causality; Expository texts; Reading; Text comprehension; Text representation; Textbooks; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644908254     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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