What Readers Have and Do: Effects of Students' Verbal Ability and Reading Time Components on Comprehension With and Without Text Availability

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 877-896

  Schroeder, Sascha ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Reading comprehension; Reading time components; Verbal ability

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155171402     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023731     Document Type: Article

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