Speaking and writing tasks and their effects on second language performance

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 364-380

  Kuiken, Folkert ^a   Vedder, Ineke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203808184     Document Type: Chapter

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