Changes in interest and affect during a difficult reading task: Relationships with perceived difficulty and reading fluency

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 27, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-20

  Fulmer, Sara M ^a   Tulis, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Interest; Perceived difficulty; Reading fluency; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877340688     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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