Roles of morphological awareness in the reading comprehension of Spanish-speaking language minority learners: Exploring partial mediation by vocabulary and reading fluency

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 697-725

  Kieffer, Michael J ^a   Biancarosa, Gina ^b   Mancilla Martinez, Jeannette ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 84869879844     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716411000920     Document Type: Article

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