Christian Jones, Shelley Byrnes & Nicola Halenko. Successful Spoken English. Findings form Learner Corpora. London/New York: Routledge, 2018. xiii + 176 pp. ISBN 9781138683990 . [Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics].

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Amandine Dumont | CECL, ILV, UCLouvain, Belgium

Published online: 10 December 2020

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Christian Jones, Shelley Byrnes & Nicola Halenko. Successful Spoken English. Findings form Learner Corpora. London/New York: Routledge, 2018. xiii + 176 pp. ISBN 9781138683990 . [Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics].