Negotiation of meaning as a tool for evaluating conversational skills in the OPI

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-171

  Kitajima, Ryu ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Negotiation of meaning in the OPI

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EID: 67349199485     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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