Using information technology to support empirical SLA research

Journal of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 169-196

  Myles, Florence ^a   Mitchell, Rosamond ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; French; Information technology; Research methodology; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248696428     PISSN: 14797887     EISSN: 17431743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/japl.v1i2.169     Document Type: Article

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