The impact of externalizing readers' mental representation on the comprehension of online texts

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 246-264

  Yang, Yu Fen ^a   Hung, Ya Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Main idea; Mental representation; Process data; Reading failure; Referential resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955551392     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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