Investigating age in the use of L1 or english-only instruction: Vocabulary acquisition by Korean EFL learners

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 887-901

  Lee, Jang Ho ^a   Macaro, Ernesto ^b  

^a Korea Military Academy   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Classroom codeswitching; First language; Korean; Second language; Vocabulary acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888054501     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2013.12044.x     Document Type: Article

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