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Learner English

by · 1987

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series

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This updated edition is a practical reference guide which compares the relevant features of a student's own language with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems their students have. Learner English has chapters focusing on major problems of pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and other errors as well as new chapters covering Korean, Malay/Indonesian and Polish language backgrounds.

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educationeducationMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 378 pages

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