Factors Affecting Composition Evaluation in an EFL Context: Cultural Rhetorical Pattern and Readers' Background

Language Learning

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 397-433

  Kobayashi, Hiroe ^a   Rinnert, Carol ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030490396     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1996.tb01242.x     Document Type: Article

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