Successful teaching strategies: Findings from a case study of Middle School African Americans learning arabic

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 347-357

  Moore, Zena T ^a,b   English, Mark ^b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 33748403843     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1998.tb00581.x     Document Type: Article

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