Working memory capacity and narrative task performance

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Working memory capacity and narrative task performance. / Trebits, Anna.
Second Language Task Complexity Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance. Hrsg. / Peter Robinson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. S. 267-285 (Task-Based Language Teaching; Band 2).

Publikation: Beiträge in SammelwerkenAufsätze in SammelwerkenForschung

Harvard

Trebits, A 2011, Working memory capacity and narrative task performance. in P Robinson (Hrsg.), Second Language Task Complexity Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance. Task-Based Language Teaching, Bd. 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, S. 267-285. https://doi.org/10.1075/tblt.2.17ch10

APA

Trebits, A. (2011). Working memory capacity and narrative task performance. In P. Robinson (Hrsg.), Second Language Task Complexity Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance (S. 267-285). (Task-Based Language Teaching; Band 2). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/tblt.2.17ch10

Vancouver

Trebits A. Working memory capacity and narrative task performance. in Robinson P, Hrsg., Second Language Task Complexity Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2011. S. 267-285. (Task-Based Language Teaching). doi: 10.1075/tblt.2.17ch10

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