Researching Acquisition Sequences: Idealization and De-idealization in SLA

Language Learning

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 181-209

  Ellis, Rod ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acquisition sequences; De idealization; Idealization; L2 negation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938489572     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lang.12089     Document Type: Article

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