How do children deal with inconsistencies in text? An eye fixation and self-paced reading study in good and poor reading comprehenders

Reading and Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1665-1690

  van der Schoot, Menno ^a   Reijntjes, Albert ^b   van Lieshout, Ernest C D M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Comprehension monitoring; Eye fixations; Inconsistency detection; Reading comprehension; Situation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864283010     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-011-9337-4     Document Type: Article

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