Classification of students with reading comprehension difficulties: The roles of motivation, affect, and psychopathology

Learning Disability Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 159-180

  Sideridis, Georgios D ^a   Mouzaki, Angeliki ^a   Simos, Panagiotis ^a   Protopapas, Athanassios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

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EID: 33748705538     PISSN: 07319487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30035505     Document Type: Review

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