Roles of attention shifting and inhibitory control in fourth-grade reading comprehension

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 333-348

  Kieffer, Michael J ^a   Vukovic, Rose K ^a   Berry, Daniel ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

To learners in which of the following categories does your work apply?; X Childhood; X Comprehension; X Oral language; X Struggling learners

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900563138     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rrq.54     Document Type: Article

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