Investigating writing development in secondary school learners of French

Assessing Writing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-110

  Benevento, Cathleen ^a   Storch, Neomy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

French L2; L2 writing development; Measures of writing; Use of memorised chunks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953319752     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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