Can a graded reader corpus provide 'authentic' input?

ELT Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-32

  Allan, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 57849098113     PISSN: 09510893     EISSN: 14774526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccn011     Document Type: Article

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