Analyzing a group of EFL learners’ products Of two dictations: foreseeing orthographical difficulties and planning pronunciation exercises

This article analyzes the phoneme-grapheme correspondence in the products of two orthographic-text dictations taken by a group of sixteen English majors at the School of Modern Languages at the University of Costa Rica. Accordingly, before administering the dictation of the first text, the author lo...

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Autor principal:	Navas Brenes, César Alberto
Formato:	Online
Idioma:	spa
Publicado:	Universidad de Costa Rica 2014
Acceso en línea:	https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/intersedes/article/view/17795

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Analyzing a group of EFL learners’ products Of two dictations: foreseeing orthographical difficulties and planning pronunciation exercises

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