Low-Income Immigrant Pupils Learning Vocabulary Through Digital Picture Storybooks

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-61

  Verhallen, Marian J A J ^a   Bus, Adriana G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

digital picture storybooks; expressive vocabulary; low income immigrant children; receptive vocabulary; storybook reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249153206     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017133     Document Type: Article

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