Effects of task instruction and personal epistemology on the understanding of multiple texts about climate change

Discourse Processes

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-31

  Br̊ten, Ivar ^a   Strømsø, Helge I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 77952850871     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01638530902959646     Document Type: Article

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