Sociocultural variation in literacy achievement

British Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-211

  Verhoeven, Ludo ^a,b   Vermeer, Anne ^c  

^a Behavioural Science Institute   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decoding; Literacy; Psycholinguistics; Sociocultural variation; The Netherlands; Writing skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745320546     PISSN: 00071005     EISSN: 14678527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8527.2006.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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