The amount, purpose, and reasons for using L1 in L2 classrooms

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 742-759

  De La Campa, Juliane C ^a   Nassaji, Hossein ^b  

^a Langara College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

German as an l2; Instructor beliefs; L1 use

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649115684     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2009.01052.x     Document Type: Article

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