Doing It by the Book: Training Student Teachers at the Faculty of Letters, the University of Porto (FLUP) to Evaluate English Language Teaching (ELT) Materials

Nic Hurst

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Doing It by the Book: Training Student Teachers at the Faculty of Letters, the University of Porto (FLUP) to Evaluate English Language Teaching (ELT) Materials

e-TEALS

Volume 6 (2015): Issue 1 (December 2015)

By: Nic Hurst

Open Access

|Feb 2016

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