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The Assessment of Functional Adequacy in Language Performance: Special issue of the Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning 2:1 (2022)
Edited by Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder
[TASK 2:1] 2022
► pp. 1–7
Introduction

The assessment of functional adequacy in language performance

| University of Amsterdam
| University of Amsterdam
Article outline
  • Assessment of functional adequacy: Rationale and objectives
  • Overview of the volume
  • References


This article is available free of charge.

Published online: 20 June 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/task.21009.kui
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