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Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative Study Cover

Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative Study

By: Gašper Ilc and  Andrej Stopar  
Open Access
|Dec 2016

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0015 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734
Language: English
Page range: 116 - 126
Published on: Dec 30, 2016
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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