The study of the role of the background languages in third language acquisition. The state of the art

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 185-219

  Falk, Ylva ^a   Bardel, Camilla ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 77954989894     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/iral.2010.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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