Politics and legislation in citizenship testing in the United States

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 29, Issue , 2009, Pages 37-48

  Kunnan, Antony John ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 77950742536     PISSN: 02671905     EISSN: 14716356     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1017/S0267190509090047     Document Type: Review

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