Beyond writing as language learning or content learning: Construing foreign language writing as meaning-making

Language Learning and Language Teaching

Volumn 31, Issue , 2011, Pages 133-157

  Byrnes, Heidi ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85126877698     PISSN: 15699471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/lllt.31.11byr     Document Type: Chapter

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