Language learning interest at a new management university in multilingual Singapore

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 544-551

  Wharton, Glenn ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asia; Business; Education; Language planning; Multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846402084     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2005.tb02521.x     Document Type: Article

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