Revisiting problems with foreign language aptitude

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-136

  Sáfár, Anna ^a   Kormos, Judit ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 54949091952     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IRAL.2008.005     Document Type: Article

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