Structure and strategies in children's educational television: The roles of program type and learning strategies in children's learning

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1582-1597

  Linebarger, Deborah L ^a   Piotrowski, Jessica Taylor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; TELEVISION;

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; TELEVISION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77956565473     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01493.x     Document Type: Article

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