Facilitating and inhibiting factors in english as a foreign language writing performance: A model testing with structural equation modeling

Language Learning

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 335-374

  Lee, Sy Ying ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

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EID: 19944413084     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0023-8333.2005.00306.x     Document Type: Review

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