Effects of static visuals and computer-generated animations in facilitating immediate and delayed achievement in the EFL classroom

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 203-219

  Lin, Huifen ^a   Chen, Tsuiping ^a   Dwyer, Francis M ^b  

^a KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Content based instruction; English as a foreign language (EFL); Subject matter; Visuals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748941922     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2006.tb02262.x     Document Type: Article

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