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Prejudiced against your own students? Teacher’s implicit bias

August 2016

Conference: Psychology of Language Learning 2 (PLL2)
At: University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Authors:

Ali H. Al-Hoorie

Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu

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