Pre-service EFL teachers' conceptions of language proficiency: Entry and exit level qualifications

Year 2019, Volume: 15 Issue: 2, 484 - 495, 01.07.2019

Dinçay Kösal , Ömer Gökhan Ulum

https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.586144

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Pre-service EFL teachers' conceptions of language proficiency: Entry and exit level qualifications
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Author (Last name, First name)	Köksal, Dinçay
Affiliated institution (University)	Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
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Author (Last name, First name)	Ulum, Ömer Gökhan
Affiliated institution (University)	Mersin University
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Keywords

English as a Foreign Language; pre-service EFL teachers; language; language proficiency; English language proficiency

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