Beyond vocabulary: Exploring cross-disciplinary academic-language proficiency and its association with reading comprehension

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 337-356

  Uccelli, Paola ^a   Galloway, Emily Phillips ^a   Barr, Christopher D ^b   Meneses, Alejandra ^c   Dobbs, Christina L ^d  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84932196797     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rrq.104     Document Type: Article

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