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Original Articles

Effect of Acoustic Spectrographic Instruction on production of English /i/ and /I/ by Spanish pre-service English teachers

Pages 207-227 | Received 20 Sep 2011, Accepted 22 Aug 2012, Published online: 24 Sep 2012

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