Linguistic competences of learners of dutch as a second language at the B1 and B2 levels of speaking proficiency of the common european framework of reference for languages (CEFR) 1

Language Testing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 203-221

  Hulstijn, Jan H ^a   Schoonen, Rob ^a   de Jong, Nivja H ^b   Steinel, Margarita P ^a   Florijn, Arjen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CEFR; grammar; levels of proficiency; linguistic competence; vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860204348     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532211419826     Document Type: Article

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