Exploring gender and oral proficiency interview performance

System

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 373-386

  O'Sullivan, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender; Language testing; Performance; Qualitative; Quantitative; Speaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042204102     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(00)00018-X     Document Type: Article

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