The effect of task complexity on functional adequacy, fluency and lexical diversity in speaking performances of native and non-native speakers

Language Learning and Language Teaching

Volumn 32, Issue , 2012, Pages 121-142

  de Jong, Nivja H ^a   Steinel, Margarita P ^b   Florijn, Arjen ^b   Schoonen, Rob ^b   Hulstijn, Jan H ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85126899211     PISSN: 15699471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/lllt.32.06jon     Document Type: Chapter

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