Students' extracurricular reading behavior and the development of vocabulary and reading comprehension

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 26, Issue , 2013, Pages 89-102

  Pfost, Maximilian ^a   Dörfler, Tobias ^b   Artelt, Cordula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Internet; Reading behavior; Reading literacy development; Secondary school; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878577061     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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