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Publication details [#30585]

Vinther, Thora. 2002. Elicited imitation:a brief overview. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 12 (1) : 54–73.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | imitation | language | testing

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers Associates, Inc.

ISBN

0802-6106

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

The article discusses the key concepts of elicited imitation, reviews the related literature and suggests some issues for discussion, whilst focusing on foreign language acquisition, in order to enhance our understanding of this technique for language testing.