Autonomy at all costs: An ethnography of metacognitive self-assessment and self-management among experienced language learners

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 279-290

  Rivers, William P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0039010879     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0026-7902.00109     Document Type: Article

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