The relations between document familiarity, frequency, and prevalence and document literacy performance among adult readers

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-26

  Cohen, Dale J ^a   Snowden, Jessica L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 38849101749     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.43.1.2     Document Type: Article

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