THE INFLUENCE OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ BELIEFS ON LEARNING EXPERIENCES IN A LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING METHODS COURSE
@inproceedings{Tolstoy2006THEIO, title={THE INFLUENCE OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ BELIEFS ON LEARNING EXPERIENCES IN A LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING METHODS COURSE}, author={Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy}, year={2006}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:851732} }
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