Where is she? Gender occurrences in online grammar guides

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-187

  Amare, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

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