The effects of backchannels on fluency in L2 oral task production

System

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 279-294

  Wolf, James P ^a  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backchannels; Language teaching; Second language fluency; Second language learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649097886     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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