Validation of a controlled productive Vocabulary Levels Test below the 2000-word level

System

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 352-364

  Abdullah, Khairi Izwan ^a   Puteh, Fatimah ^a   Azizan, Awis Rumaisya ^a   Hamdan, Nurul Na'immah ^a   Saude, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Motivation; Self efficacy; Vocabulary; Vocabulary levels test; Vocabulary size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878935525     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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