The relationship between L1 fluency and L2 fluency development

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 533-557

  Derwing, Tracey M ^a   Munro, Murray J ^b   Thomson, Ronald I ^c   Rossiter, Marian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 71749098165     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263109990015     Document Type: Article

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