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CORRECTION article
Front. Psychol., 08 February 2021
Sec. Psychology of Language
Volume 11 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.643027
This article is a correction to:
An Extensive Knowledge Mapping Review of Measurement and Validity in Language Assessment and SLA Research
A Corrigendum on
An Extensive Knowledge Mapping Review of Measurement and Validity in Language Assessment and SLA Research
by Aryadoust, V., Zakaria, A., Lim, M. H., and Chen, C. (2020). Front. Psychol. 11:1941. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01941
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The authors apologize for these errors and state that they do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: document co-citation analysis, language assessment, measurement, review, Scientometrics, validity, visualization, Second language acquisition
Citation: Aryadoust V, Zakaria A, Lim MH and Chen C (2021) Corrigendum: An Extensive Knowledge Mapping Review of Measurement and Validity in Language Assessment and SLA Research. Front. Psychol. 11:643027. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.643027
Received: 17 December 2020; Accepted: 18 December 2020;
Published: 08 February 2021.
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