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Publication details [#28758]

Vanparys, Johan, Carole Zimmer, Xinghua Li and Peter Kelly. 1997. Some salient and persistent difficulties encountered by Chinese and Francophone students in the learning of English vocabulary. ITL 115 - 116 : 137–164.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | applied linguistics | foreign language acquisition | second language acquisition | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper which deals with the importance of vocabulary learning in second/foreign language acquisition, focuses on persistent writing difficulties encountered by Francophone and Chinese learners of English.