Quantitative considerations for improving replicability in CALL and applied linguistics

CALICO Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 232-244

  Plonsky, Luke ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language instruction; Quantitative research methods; Replication; SLA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969259599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20569017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/cj.v32i2.26857     Document Type: Article

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