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The management of language training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2008

Pauline C. Robinson
Pauline C. Robinson
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Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Reading
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Language Teaching , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 146 - 157
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