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Original Articles

Investigating eight- to nine-year-olds’ self-regulatory self-talk in the context of their classroom tasks

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Pages 1661-1676 | Received 18 Sep 2013, Accepted 11 Dec 2013, Published online: 23 Jan 2014

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