Using learning style to predict foreign language achievement at the college level

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Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 115-133

  Bailey, Phillip ^a   Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J ^c   Daley, Christine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b Muscogee County School District   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cognitive styles; FL achievement; Learning styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039459491     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(99)00064-0     Document Type: Article

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