Assessing integrative reading of images and text in group reading comprehension tests

Curriculum Perspectives

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 71-76

  Unsworth, Len ^a   Chan, Eveline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

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