English pronunciation and fluency development in Mandarin and Slavic speakers

System

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-193

  Derwing, Tracey M ^a   Thomson, Ron I ^a   Munro, Murray J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accent; Fluency; Pronunciation; Second language acquisition; Second language instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744532554     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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