Towards a better Understanding of academic acculturation: Second language students in canadian universities

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-333

  Cheng, Liying ^a   Fox, Janna ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic acculturation; English for academic purposes instruction; Internationalization; Second language students

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849140456     PISSN: 00084506     EISSN: 17101131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.65.2.307     Document Type: Article

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