Letter names and alphabet book reading by senior kindergarteners: An eye movement study

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1824-1841

  Evans, Mary Ann ^a   Saint Aubin, Jean ^b   Landry, Nadine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SACCADES; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 72449168867     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01370.x     Document Type: Article

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