Pragmatic and grammatical competence, length of residence, and overall L2 proficiency

System

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 205-216

  Xu, Wei ^a   Case, Rod E ^a   Wang, Yu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Grammatical competence; L2 Proficiency; Length of residence; Pragmatic competence; Target language community

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349213280     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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