The assessment of deep word knowledge in young first and second language learners

Language Testing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-236

  Schoonen, Rob ^a   Verhallen, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

L1 and L2 learners; Primary education; Vocabulary knowledge; Word associations

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249096231     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532207086782     Document Type: Article

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