'Active agents of change?' mandarin-speaking students in New Zealand and the thesis writing process

Language and Education

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 415-429

  Chang, Chiungying Evelyn ^a   Strauss, Pat ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cross cultural supervision; EAL; Student agency; Thesis dissertation writing; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955225893     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500781003789873     Document Type: Article

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