Summarization instruction: Effects on foreign language comprehension and summarization of expository texts

Reading Research and Instruction

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 329-350

  Cordero Ponce, Wanda L ^a  

^a SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85006195983     PISSN: 08860246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19388070009558329     Document Type: Article

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