Confronting assumptions: Preservice teachers’ beliefs about reading and literature

Reading Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-55

  Asselin, Marlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 85011154589     PISSN: 02702711     EISSN: 15210685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/027027100278338     Document Type: Article

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