Reliability assessment for two versions of Vocabulary Levels Tests

System

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 182-191

  Xing, Peiling ^a   Fulcher, Glenn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Reliability; Vocabulary Levels Test

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EID: 34248677864     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2006.12.009     Document Type: Article

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