Predictors of word reading skills in good and struggling readers in Sinhala

Writing Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 120-131

  Wijayathilake, M A D K ^a   Parrila, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alphasyllabary; Phonological processing; Reading development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894597359     PISSN: 17586801     EISSN: 1758681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.846844     Document Type: Article

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