EFL Teachers' views of English language assessment in higher education in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 546-555

  Troudi, Salah ^a   Coombe, Christine ^b   Al Hamly, Mashael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Higher Colleges of Technology   (United Arab Emirates)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

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EID: 70350398554     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1545-7249.2009.tb00252.x     Document Type: Article

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