Testing vocabulary knowledge: Size, strength, and computer adaptiveness

Language Learning

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 399-436

  Laufer, Batia ^a,b   Goldstein, Zahava ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Dept of Engl Lang and Literature ^*

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EID: 4544235667     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0023-8333.2004.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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