Assessing FL pronunciation in a semi-immersion setting: The effects of clil instruction on Spanish-Catalan learners' perceived comprehensibility and accentedness

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-108

  Fabra, Lucrecia Rallo ^a   Juan Garau, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

CLIL; Foreign accent; Formal instruction; Intelligibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873535697     PISSN: 18977499     EISSN: 17320747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/psicl-2011-0008     Document Type: Article

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