Effects of prior knowledge on text comprehension: A simple modeling approach

Models of Understanding Text

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 115-139

  Mannes, Suzanne ^a   St George, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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