Refusing in a foreign language: An investigation of problems encountered by Chinese learners of English

Multilingua

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-98

  Chang, Yuh Fang ^a  

^a NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese learners of English; Interlanguage; Perception data; Production data; Refusal

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959989223     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mult.2011.004     Document Type: Article

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