A not-so-simple view of reading: How oral vocabulary and visual-word recognition complicate the story

Reading and Writing

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-208

  Ouellette, Gene ^a   Beers, Ashley ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decoding; Irregular word recognition; Reading comprehension; Semantics; The simple view of reading; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950459739     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-008-9159-1     Document Type: Article

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