The Simple View of Reading: Is It Valid for Different Types of Alphabetic Orthographies?

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 553-576

  Florit, Elena ^a   Cain, Kate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decoding; Early reading development; Linguistic comprehension; Reading comprehension; Simple view of reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155130956     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: 1573336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10648-011-9175-6     Document Type: Review

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