An Empirical Research on Negative Transfer in College Non-English Majors’ Chinese-English Sentence Translation
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عنوان ژورنال: Theory and Practice in Language Studies
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1799-2591
DOI: 10.4304/tpls.3.6.995-1004