Teacher assessment knowledge and practice: A narrative inquiry of a chinese college EFL teacher's experience

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 492-513

  Xu, Yueting ^a   Liu, Yongcan ^b  

^a GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 70350367159     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1545-7249.2009.tb00246.x     Document Type: Article

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