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Article published In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 2:2 (1979) ► pp.63–69

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What is the Optimum age for learning a foreign Language?

 | Department of French Studies University of Sydney
Published online: 1 January 1979
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.2.2.08mar
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