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‘College english’ in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Yinquan Wang
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An account of the teaching of EFL to university non-English majors in the 1990s

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 45 - 51
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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