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International Journal of Learner Corpus ResearchVol. 6:2 (2020) ► pp.252–257
Book review
. Successful Spoken English. Findings form Learner Corpora. London/New York: Routledge, 2018. xiii + 176 pp. ISBN 9781138683990 . [Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics].
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