Vocabulary Gender Patterns in EFL Compositions: a Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Study

• Julieta Ojeda Alba ^[1] ; Rosa María Jiménez Catalán ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de La Rioja

     Universidad de La Rioja

     Logroño, España

     
• Localización: Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras, ISSN 1697-7467, Nº. 13, 2010, págs. 9-28
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.30827/digibug.31921
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