Second/foreign language learning as a social accomplishment: Elaborations on a reconceptualized SLA

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 91, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 800-819

  Firth, Alan ^a   Wagner, Johannes ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 40049112951     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2007.00670.x     Document Type: Article

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