Improving early reading comprehension using embodied CAI

Instructional Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-39

  Glenberg, Arthur M ^a,b   Goldberg, Andrew B ^c   Zhu, Xiaojin ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided instruction; Educational technology; Embodiment; Emerging readers; Reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650781065     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-009-9096-7     Document Type: Article

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