Measuring oral proficiency in distance, face-to-face, and blended classrooms

Language Learning and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 114-127

  Blake, Robert ^a,b   Wilson, Nicole L ^c,d   Cetto, María ^a   Pardo Ballester, Cristina ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UC Language Consortium

^c PEARSON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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