Strategies for success: Profiling the effective learner of German

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 216-225

  Bruen, Jennifer ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

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EID: 21644438139     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2001.tb02403.x     Document Type: Article

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