Role of self-talk in the classroom: investigating the relationship of eight-to-nine-year-olds' self-regulatory self-talk strategies with their classroom self-regulatory behaviour and mathematical achievement

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 198-208

  Lee, Scott ^a   McDonough, Andrea ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

achievement; internalised self talk; mathematics; self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920569281     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2014.915818     Document Type: Article

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