Students' approaches to vocabulary learning and their relationship to success

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 176-192

  Kojic Sabo, Izabella ^a   Lightbown, Patsy M ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

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EID: 0012807204     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0026-7902.00014     Document Type: Article

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