NATURAL SPEAKING AND HOW TO ASSESS IT.
One of the problems in testing the proficiency of Estonian as a first or second language is that high-stake exams are assessed against the standards of the written language. Given this, we set out to describe the features of the actual use of educated language in different types of text. The goal wa...
| Published in: | TRAMES: A Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 120 - 141 |
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Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus
2010
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