The relationship between TOEFL vocabulary items and meaning, association, collocation and word-class knowledge

Language Testing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-216

  Schmitt, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002610220     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026553229901600204     Document Type: Article

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