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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 Cover

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

By: Nic Hurst  
Open Access
|Feb 2016

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Language: English
Page range: 1 - 19
Published on: Feb 12, 2016
Published by: New University of Lisbon
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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