Modern foreign languages recruitment post-16: The pupils' perspective

Language Learning Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 33-40

  Fisher, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 27344433742     PISSN: 09571736     EISSN: 17532167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09571730185200071     Document Type: Article

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