Does the writing of undergraduate ESL students develop after one year of study in an English-medium university?

Assessing Writing

Volumn 21, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-17

  Knoch, Ute ^a   Rouhshad, Amir ^a   Storch, Neomy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessing writing; Discourse measures; Employability; Feedback to writing; International students; Writing development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894474920     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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