The impact of relational markers on expository text comprehension in L1 and L2

Reading and Writing

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 739-757

  Degand, Liesbeth ^a   Sanders, Ted ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causality; Coherence relations; Connectives; Discourse markers; Reading comprehension; Second language reading; Text processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746371269     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1020932715838     Document Type: Article

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