Children's cognitive effort and fluency in writing: Effects of genre and of handwriting automatisation

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-308

  Olive, Thierry ^a   Favart, Monik ^a   Beauvais, Caroline ^a   Beauvais, Lucie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive effort; Genre knowledge; Handwriting; Text writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 62049084276     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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