Assessing integrated writing tasks for academic purposes: Promises and perils

Language Assessment Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Cumming, Alister ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84874472468     PISSN: 15434303     EISSN: 15434311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15434303.2011.622016     Document Type: Review

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