A corpus-based environmental academic word list building and its validity test

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 39, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-11

  Liu, Jia ^a   Han, Lina ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AWL; Validity test; Word selection criteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926038644     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2015.03.001     Document Type: Article

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