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Richard L. Sparks, Leonore Ganschow, The Impact of Native Language Learning Problems on Foreign Language Learning: Case Study Illustrations of the Linguistic Coding Deficit Hypothesis, The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 58-74
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