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The path I took

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

Susan Gass
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A professional journey is always part personal and mine is no exception. How does an individual from the Midwest of the United States get involved with language? It is something I have pondered for a long time along with the additional question of how that involvement translated into a profession. I hardly see it as a profession; rather, it was a life-long love of language that took me down a professional path.

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Language Teaching , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , October 2016 , pp. 578 - 591
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