An evaluation of an online bilingual corpus for the self-learning of legal English

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Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-63

  Fan, May ^a   Xunfeng, Xu ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Comprehension tasks; Legal English; Online bilingual corpus; Parallel texts; Self learning; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644220307     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(01)00052-5     Document Type: Article

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