Collaborative syntactic priming activities and EFL learners' production of Wh-questions

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 817-841

  McDonough, Kim ^a   Chaikitmongkol, Wanpen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Collaborative activities; EFL learners; English questions; Syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551634316     PISSN: 00084506     EISSN: 17101131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.66.6.817     Document Type: Article

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