Exploring the benefits of task repetition and recycling for classroom language learning

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 221-250

  Lynch, Tony ^a   Maclean, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84990361427     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136216880000400303     Document Type: Article

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