A longitudinal study of ESL learners' fluency and comprehensibility development

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-380

  Derwing, Tracey M ^a   Munro, Murray J ^b   Thomson, Ron I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 50249091351     PISSN: 01426001     EISSN: 1477450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/applin/amm041     Document Type: Article

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