Connector usage in the English essay writing of Japanese EFL learners

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1171-1174

  Narita, Masumi ^a   Sato, Chieko ^b   Sugiura, Masatoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nihon IR Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGLISH WRITINGS; ESSAY WRITINGS; FREQUENCY COUNTS; JAPANESE UNIVERSITIES; SWEDISHS;

EID: 84984626074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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