Converging evidence: Attitudes, achievements, and instruction in the later years of FLES

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 377-393

  Donato, Richard ^a,b   Tucker, G Richard ^c,d   Wudthayagorn, Jirada ^e   Igarashi, Kanae ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAEJO UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

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EID: 0039603494     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2000.tb00620.x     Document Type: Article

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