Investigating the merits of pair work on a text editing task in ESL classes

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-159

  Storch, Neomy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 40449123222     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168807074600     Document Type: Article

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