In search of fluency: What is it and how can we teach it?

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 566-589

  Wood, David ^a  

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EID: 0040516203     PISSN: 00084506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.57.4.573     Document Type: Article

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