The effect of audience age on measured written performance

System

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-77

  Porter, D ^a   O'Sullivan, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audeince age; Interlanguage variability; Performance; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347670695     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(98)00050-5     Document Type: Article

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