Summary writing in a Thai EFL university context

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-32

  McDonough, Kim ^a   Crawford, William J ^b   De Vleeschauwer, Jindarat ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Low proficiency EFL writers; Summary writing; Verbatim copying

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897378710     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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