Examining dialogue: Another approach to content specification and to validating inferences drawn from test scores

Language Testing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 275-302

  Swain, Merrill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84990397336     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026553220101800302     Document Type: Article

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