An Investigation of Japanese and English L1 Essay Organization: Differences and Similarities

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 475-502

  Kubota, Ryuko ^a  

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DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.54.4.475     Document Type: Article

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