Ethnic identity and second language learning

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 234-252

  Trofimovich, Pavel ^a   Turuševa, Larisa ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Latvia)

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EID: 84924815689     PISSN: 02671905     EISSN: 14716356     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1017/S0267190514000166     Document Type: Review

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