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STORY RETELLING: SELECTED REFERENCES
(last updated 30 May 2013)
Cathcart, R. (1986). Situational differences and the sampling of young children’s school
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O’Sullivan, B. (2002). Learner acquaintanceship and oral proficiency test pair-task
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