Making the link between vocabulary knowledge and comprehension skill

Reading-from Words to Multiple Texts

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 101-114

  Oakhill, Jane ^a   Cain, Kate ^b   McCarthy, Diana ^c   Nightingale, Zoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LEXICAL COMPUTING LTD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203131268     Document Type: Chapter

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