The relationship between EFL learners' beliefs and learning strategy use

System

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 515-535

  Yang, Nae Dong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Beliefs about language learning; English, Second language; Learning strategies; Metacognition; Motivation; Second language learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008946076     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(99)00048-2     Document Type: Article

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