Using Learner Corpora for Testing and Assessing L2 Profi ciency

Measuring L2 Proficiency: Perspectives from SLA

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 71-90

  Callies, Marcus ^a   Díez Bedmar, María Belén ^b   Zaytseva, Ekaterina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

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