Does Foreign Language Writing Benefit From Increased Lexical Fluency? Evidence From a Classroom Experiment

Language Learning

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 281-321

  Van Gelderen, Amos ^a   Oostdam, Ron ^a   Van Schooten, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Classroom experiment; Foreign language writing; Lexical fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551627201     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00612.x     Document Type: Article

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