Living Language: Self-Assessment, Oral Production, and Domestic Immersion

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 302-316

  Dolosic, Haley N ^a   Brantmeier, Cindy ^a   Strube, Michael ^a   Hogrebe, Mark C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

experiential learning; foreign second language learning acquisition; immersion; self assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84970959926     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/flan.12191     Document Type: Article

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