Anxiety in Chinese EFL students at different proficiency levels

System

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 301-316

  Liu, Meihua ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese undergraduate non English majors; EFL in China; Foreign language anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748171940     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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