An investigation of learning transfer in English-for-general-academic-purposes writing instruction

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 183-206

  James, Mark Andrew ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ESL; Freshman composition; Transfer of training

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049455712     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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