Teaching native speakers to listen to foreign-accented speech

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 245-259

  Derwing, Tracey M ^a   Rossiter, Marian J ^a   Munro, Murray J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0242320826     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434630208666468     Document Type: Article

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