Effects of beliefs about meaning construction and task instructions on interpretation of narrative text

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 411-437

  Mason, Lucia ^a   Scirica, Fabio ^a   Salvi, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beliefs about reading; Interpretation; Literature response; Narrative text

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749516286     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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