Deconstructing attitudes towards plagiarism of Japanese undergraduates in EFL academic writing classes

English Language Teaching

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 95-109

  Teeter, Jennifer ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Culture; EFL; ESL; Japan; Plagiarism; Science majors; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919350920     PISSN: 19164742     EISSN: 19164750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/elt.v8n1p95     Document Type: Article

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