Assessing Japanese college students' vocabulary knowledge with a self-checking familiarity survey

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Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-247

  Barrow, J ^a   Nakanishi, Y ^a   Ishino, H ^a  

^a OSAKA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

English a a Foreign Language; Familiarity; Japanese learners; Lexicon; Vocabulary knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347775906     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(99)00018-4     Document Type: Article

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