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Primary foreign language teaching in Europe – trends and issues

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Angelika Kubanek-German
Angelika Kubanek-German
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Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany
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Language Teaching , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 193 - 205
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