Well I'm not sure I think... The use of well by non-native speakers

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-254

  Aijmer, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

language teaching; learner corpora; non native speaker; pragmatic marker; well

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958164735     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.16.2.04aij     Document Type: Article

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