What to look for in ESL admission tests: Cambridge certificate exams, IELTS, and TOEFL

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Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 523-539

  Chalhoub Deville, Micheline ^a   Turner, Carolyn E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cambridge exams; Examination; IELTS; Teaching; Test users; TOEFL

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034392401     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(00)00036-1     Document Type: Article

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