Investigating eight- to nine-year-olds’ self-regulatory self-talk in the context of their classroom tasks

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 184, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1661-1676

  Lee, Scott ^a   McDonough, Andrea ^a   Bird, Jo ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cognitive self regulation; covert self talk; self regulatory self talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908231662     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2013.875539     Document Type: Article

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