Learning to write in a second language: Multilingual graduates and undergraduates expanding genre repertories

Language Learning and Language Teaching

Volumn 31, Issue , 2011, Pages 85-109

  Leki, Ilona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 85126831448     PISSN: 15699471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/lllt.31.09lek     Document Type: Chapter

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