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‘What do you call the dull words?’ primary school children using corpus-based approaches to learn about language

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‘What do you call the dull words?’ primary school children using corpus-based approaches to learn about language. / Sealey, Alison; Thompson, Paul.
In: English in Education, Vol. 38, No. 1, 01.03.2004, p. 80-91.

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Sealey, A & Thompson, P 2004, '‘What do you call the dull words?’ primary school children using corpus-based approaches to learn about language', English in Education, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 80-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-8845.2004.tb00774.x

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Sealey, A., & Thompson, P. (2004). ‘What do you call the dull words?’ primary school children using corpus-based approaches to learn about language. English in Education, 38(1), 80-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-8845.2004.tb00774.x

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Sealey A, Thompson P. ‘What do you call the dull words?’ primary school children using corpus-based approaches to learn about language. English in Education. 2004 Mar 1;38(1):80-91. doi: 10.1111/j.1754-8845.2004.tb00774.x

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Sealey, Alison ; Thompson, Paul. / ‘What do you call the dull words?’ primary school children using corpus-based approaches to learn about language. In: English in Education. 2004 ; Vol. 38, No. 1. pp. 80-91.

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