Evaluating the use of corpus-based instruction in a language teacher education context: Perspectives from the users

Language Awareness

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-43

  Farr, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Evaluation; Language teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749099764     PISSN: 09658416     EISSN: 17477506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/la414.0     Document Type: Article

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