Construct Under-representation and Construct Irrelevant Variances on IELTS Academic Writing Task 1: Is There Any Threat to Validity?
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عنوان ژورنال: Theory and Practice in Language Studies
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1799-2591
DOI: 10.17507/tpls.0711.19