The expert language learner: A review of good language learner studies and learner strategies

Expertise in Second Language Learning and Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 37-63

  Rubin, Joan ^a  

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523470_3     Document Type: Chapter

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