How involved are American L2 learners of Spanish in lexical input processing tasks during reading?

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-58

  Pulido, Diana ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67649659853     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263109090020     Document Type: Article

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