Learning styles and foreign language learning difficulties

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 401-409

  Castro, Obdulia ^a   Peck, Veronica ^b  

^a REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign language learning deficit; Foreign second language learning at the college level; Learning difficulties; Learning styles; Strategies for success

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751185315     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2005.tb02226.x     Document Type: Article

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