Reading with a purpose: Communicative reading tasks for the foreign language classroom

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-57

  Knutson, Elizabeth M ^a,b  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0040548213     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1997.tb01316.x     Document Type: Article

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