A comparative study of Croatian and Hungarian EFL students

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 433-452

  Djigunović, Jelena Mihaljević ^a   Nikolov, Marianne ^b   Ottó, István ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c Regional Public Administration Office for Southern Transdanubia   (Hungary)

Author keywords

14 year olds; Assessment of proficiency; Number of students in groups; Time factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749231927     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168808089926     Document Type: Article

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