Bearing multilingual parameters in mind when designing a questionnaire on attitudes: Does this affect the results?

International Journal of Multilingualism

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-51

  Lasagabaster, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Holistic questionnaire; Multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248705887     PISSN: 14790718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17501220508668375     Document Type: Article

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