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Building a corpus of student academic writing in EMI contexts: Challenges in corpus design and data collection across international higher education settings

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Building a corpus of student academic writing in EMI contexts: Challenges in corpus design and data collection across international higher education settings. / Gablasova, Dana; Harding, Luke; Bottini, Raffaella et al.
In: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Vol. 3, No. 3, 100140, 31.12.2024.

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Gablasova, D, Harding, L, Bottini, R, Brezina, V, Ren, H, Iamartino, G, Li, Y, Liu, T, Pogessi, L, Savski, K, Toomaneejinda, A & Zottola, A 2024, 'Building a corpus of student academic writing in EMI contexts: Challenges in corpus design and data collection across international higher education settings', Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, vol. 3, no. 3, 100140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100140

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Gablasova, D., Harding, L., Bottini, R., Brezina, V., Ren, H., Iamartino, G., Li, Y., Liu, T., Pogessi, L., Savski, K., Toomaneejinda, A., & Zottola, A. (2024). Building a corpus of student academic writing in EMI contexts: Challenges in corpus design and data collection across international higher education settings. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3(3), Article 100140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100140

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Gablasova D, Harding L, Bottini R, Brezina V, Ren H, Iamartino G et al. Building a corpus of student academic writing in EMI contexts: Challenges in corpus design and data collection across international higher education settings. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 2024 Dec 31;3(3):100140. Epub 2024 Aug 10. doi: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100140

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Gablasova, Dana ; Harding, Luke ; Bottini, Raffaella et al. / Building a corpus of student academic writing in EMI contexts : Challenges in corpus design and data collection across international higher education settings. In: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 2024 ; Vol. 3, No. 3.

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