TESL Undergraduates' Ability to Handle Academic Text-types at University Malaysia Sarawak.
This case study examined the ability of TESL undergraduates to handle five text-types commonly required by their assignments, with a specific focus on the structure and language features significant to the text-type. Stratified random sampling was used to obtain 60 coursework assignments across five...
| Publicado en: | Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 85 - 101 |
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Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature
2008
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