World Englishes and Test Construction

The Handbook of World Englishes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 709-717

  Davidson, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicative competence; Controversies; Pedagogical models; Pluralistic nature; Quirk's position

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858811031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757598.ch39     Document Type: Chapter

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