Reading efficiency in native English-speaking and English-as-a-second- language children: The role of oral proficiency and underlying cognitive-linguistic processes

Scientific Studies of Reading

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-57

  Geva, Esther ^a   Yaghoub Zadeh, Zohreh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Canadian Council on Learning   (Canada)

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EID: 33646719503     PISSN: 10888438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s1532799xssr1001_3     Document Type: Article

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