Japanese speakers of American english: Competence with connectives in written language

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1048-1055

  Steffani, Susan A ^a   Nippold, Marilyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult language use and understanding; Connectives; English as a second language; Japanese speakers of English; Written language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH REHABILITATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030874147     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4005.1048     Document Type: Article

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