Exploring intrinsic and extrinsic reading motivation among very good and very poor readers

Educational Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 309-322

  McGeown, Sarah P ^a   Norgate, Roger ^b   Warhurst, Amy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b Winchester Local Office   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

good readers; motivation; poor readers; reading; skill

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864620036     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: 14695847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131881.2012.710089     Document Type: Article

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