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Corpora no Ensino do Inglês Acadêmico: Padrões Léxico-Gramaticais em Abstracts de Pós-Graduandos Brasileiros

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Corpora no Ensino do Inglês Acadêmico: Padrões Léxico-Gramaticais em Abstracts de Pós-Graduandos Brasileiros. / Dayrell, Carmen.
Corpora no Ensino De Línguas Estrangeiras. ed. / Vander Viana; Stella Tagnin. São Paulo: HUB Editorial, 2011. p. 131-172.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Harvard

Dayrell, C 2011, Corpora no Ensino do Inglês Acadêmico: Padrões Léxico-Gramaticais em Abstracts de Pós-Graduandos Brasileiros. in V Viana & S Tagnin (eds), Corpora no Ensino De Línguas Estrangeiras. HUB Editorial, São Paulo, pp. 131-172.

APA

Dayrell, C. (2011). Corpora no Ensino do Inglês Acadêmico: Padrões Léxico-Gramaticais em Abstracts de Pós-Graduandos Brasileiros. In V. Viana, & S. Tagnin (Eds.), Corpora no Ensino De Línguas Estrangeiras (pp. 131-172). HUB Editorial.

Vancouver

Dayrell C. Corpora no Ensino do Inglês Acadêmico: Padrões Léxico-Gramaticais em Abstracts de Pós-Graduandos Brasileiros. In Viana V, Tagnin S, editors, Corpora no Ensino De Línguas Estrangeiras. São Paulo: HUB Editorial. 2011. p. 131-172

Author

Dayrell, Carmen. / Corpora no Ensino do Inglês Acadêmico : Padrões Léxico-Gramaticais em Abstracts de Pós-Graduandos Brasileiros. Corpora no Ensino De Línguas Estrangeiras. editor / Vander Viana ; Stella Tagnin. São Paulo : HUB Editorial, 2011. pp. 131-172

Bibtex

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RIS

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