Reading amount as a mediator of the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic reading motivation on reading comprehension

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 369-385

  Schaffner, Ellen ^a   Schiefele, Ulrich ^a   Ulferts, Hannah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

To learners in which of the following categories does your work apply?; x Comprehension; x Early adolescence; x Extrinsic; x Intrinsic; x Motivation engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897519153     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rrq.52     Document Type: Article

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