Working smarter, not working harder: Revisiting teacher feedback in the L2 writing classroom

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 377-399

  Lee, Icy ^a  

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Author keywords

correction d'erreurs; valuation de l' crit; error correction; feedback; L2 writing; r daction en L2; r troaction; writing assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052017590     PISSN: 00084506     EISSN: 17101131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.67.3.377     Document Type: Article

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