Self-directed learning contracts to individualize language learning in the classroom

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 495-508

  McGarrell, Hedy M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 33747972009     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1996.tb01260.x     Document Type: Article

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