Effects of the manipulation of cognitive processes on efl writers' text quality

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 375-398

  Ong, Justina ^a   Zhang, Lawrence J ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84877650017     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tesq.55     Document Type: Article

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