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Publication details [#55508]

Hubert, Michael D. 2011. Foreign language production and avoidance in US university Spanish-language education. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 21 (2) : 222–243.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell

Annotation

Although Spanish as a second language university students in the US, are incited to communicate in their target language notwithstanding a shortage of essential linguistic resources (given the promoted CLT approach), they show a large amount of evasive linguistic behavior in order to meet their communicative aims.