Economic, statistical, and linguistic factors affecting success on the test of English as a foreign language (TOEFL)

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-172

  Snow, Marcellus S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

D80; Economics of language; I20; Language testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039398318     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6245(97)00018-8     Document Type: Article

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