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Publication details [#28746]

Lao, Christy Y., Stephen D. Krashen, Barry C. Gribbons, Janice Schafrik-Arenault and William B. Michael. 1996. Conversational language proficiency among international students at the university level: Personal hypotheses versus actual practice. ITL 113 - 114 : 245–262.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | conversational competence | language proficiency | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Chinese | English, American

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper deals with perceived differences in international (Chinese) students' language proficiency in respectively English academic and English conversational language.