Language placement exams for heritage speakers of Spanish: Learning from students' mistakes

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 595-604

  Fairclough, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritage languages; Language testing; Placement exams; Spanish; Verb morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846500182     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2006.tb02278.x     Document Type: Article

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