Understanding the "other side": Intercultural learning in a Spanish-English e-mail exchange

Language Learning and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 118-144

  O'Dowd, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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