Developing a corpus-based paraphrase tool to improve EFL learners’ writing skills

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 22-40

  Chen, M H ^a   Huang, S T ^a   Chang, J S ^a   Liou, H C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

corpus based; paraphrase e reference tool; paraphrasing competence; writing performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918791436     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2013.783873     Document Type: Article

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