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Robert L. Politzer, Mary McGroarty, An Exploratory Study of Learning Behaviors and Their Relationship to Gains in Linguistic and Communicative Competence, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 103-123
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