EAP study recommendations and score gains on the IELTS Academic Writing test

Assessing Writing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-60

  Green, Anthony ^a  

^a Cambridge International Examinations   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achievement gains; Scores; Second language writing; Test results

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844382693     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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