Asian students' reticence revisited

System

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 435-446

  Cheng, Xiaotang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asian students; Culture; ESL EFL learners; Learner behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013094632     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(00)00015-4     Document Type: Article

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