Narrative of a cross-cultural language teaching experience: Conflicts between theory and practice

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1564-1572

  Yang, Shih hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cross cultural learning; Language learning and teaching; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449083803     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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