The role of achievement strategies on literacy acquisition across languages

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 130-141

  Georgiou, George K ^a   Hirvonen, Riikka ^b   Liao, Chen Huei ^c   Manolitsis, George ^d   Parrila, Rauno ^a   Nurmi, Jari Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Achievement strategies; Cross linguistic; Phonological awareness; Rapid naming speed; Reading fluency; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953280065     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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