Cultural thinking and discourse organizational patterns influencing writing skills in a chinese english-as-a-foreign-language (efl) learner

Bilingual Research Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 627-652

  González, Virginia ^a   Chen, Chia Yin ^b   Sanchez, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85011188475     PISSN: 15235882     EISSN: 15235890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15235882.2001.11074470     Document Type: Article

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