Language analytic ability and oral production in a second language: Is there a connection?

Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 99-130

  Ranta, Leila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110197372     Document Type: Chapter

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