Lexical coverage in L1 and L2 listening comprehension: The same or different from reading comprehension?

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 457-479

  Van Zeeland, Hilde ^a   Schmitt, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84885115800     PISSN: 01426001     EISSN: 1477450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/applin/ams074     Document Type: Article

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