Back to Basics: How Measures of Lexical Diversity Can Help Discriminate between CEFR Levels
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Linguistics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0142-6001,1477-450X
DOI: 10.1093/applin/amw009