Students’ attitudes to classroom English learning: A cross-cultural study

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-28

  Littlewood, William ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84990370498     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136216880100500102     Document Type: Article

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