The his/her challenge: Making progress in a ‘regular’ L2 programme

Language Awareness

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 278-299

  White, Joanna ^a   Muñoz, Carmen ^b   Collins, Laura ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalan; Cross linguistic contrasts; Developmental stages; Explicit instruction; Focused pedagogical intervention; French

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249083382     PISSN: 09658416     EISSN: 17477506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/la419.0     Document Type: Article

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