Smallwords as markers of learner fluency: Learner corpora and language testing

Hasselgren, Angela

doi:10.1075/lllt.6.11has

In:Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching
Edited by Sylviane Granger, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 6] 2002
► pp. 143–173

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Learner corpora and language testing

Smallwords as markers of learner fluency

Angela Hasselgren

Published online: 11 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.6.11has

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