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Australian English‐language textbooks: the gender issues

Jackie F.K. Lee Department of English, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong KongCorrespondence[email protected]
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Peter Collins Department of Linguistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Pages 353-370 | Received 10 Jul 2007, Accepted 09 Jun 2008, Published online: 09 Jun 2009

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