Comparing English vocabulary in a spoken learner corpus with a native speaker corpus: Pedagogical implications arising from an empirical study in Japan

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 393-412

  Shirato, Junko ^a   Stapleton, Paul ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 36248965126     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168807080960     Document Type: Article

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