A genre-based approach to teaching EFL summary writing

ELT Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 184-192

  Chen, Yuan Shan ^a   Su, Shao Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84859198163     PISSN: 09510893     EISSN: 14774526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccr061     Document Type: Article

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