Psychological constraints on the utility of metalinguistic knowledge in second language production

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 347-386

  Hu, Guangwei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 84937388891     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263102003017     Document Type: Article

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