What can we learn from good foreign language learners? A qualitative study in the Japanese foreign language context

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Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 385-392

  Takeuchi, Osamu ^a  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Good foreign language learners; Language learning strategies; Learning biographies; Qualitative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042709482     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(03)00049-6     Document Type: Article

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