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    Rights statement: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language Assessment Quarterly on 21/05/2014, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15434303.2014.902060

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Language for specific purposes: current and future issues

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Language for specific purposes: current and future issues. / Brunfaut, Tineke.
In: Language Assessment Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2014, p. 216-225.

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Brunfaut, T 2014, 'Language for specific purposes: current and future issues', Language Assessment Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 216-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2014.902060

APA

Brunfaut, T. (2014). Language for specific purposes: current and future issues. Language Assessment Quarterly, 11(2), 216-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2014.902060

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Brunfaut T. Language for specific purposes: current and future issues. Language Assessment Quarterly. 2014;11(2):216-225. Epub 2014 May 21. doi: 10.1080/15434303.2014.902060

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Brunfaut, Tineke. / Language for specific purposes : current and future issues. In: Language Assessment Quarterly. 2014 ; Vol. 11, No. 2. pp. 216-225.

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