Seeing eye to eye? the academic writing needs of graduate and undergraduate students from students' and instructors' perspectives

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 517-539

  Huang, Li Shih ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

academic language learning needs; English for academic purposes; L2 writing; needs assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957893749     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168810375372     Document Type: Article

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