Simplicity without elegance: Features of sentences in L1 and L2 academic texts

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-301

  Hinkel, Eli ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 15844427377     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3588505     Document Type: Article

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