The complex world of adolescent literacy: Myths, motivations, and mysteries

Harvard Educational Review

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 107-154

  Moje, Elizabeth Birr ^a   Overby, Melanie ^a   Tysvaer, Nicole ^a   Morris, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 41849140850     PISSN: 00178055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17763/haer.78.1.54468j6204x24157     Document Type: Article

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