Redesigning introductory Spanish: increased enrollment, online management, cost reduction, and effects on student learning

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 523-532

  Sanders, Robert F ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Enrollment; Online; Outcomes; Redesign

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846359645     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2005.tb02519.x     Document Type: Article

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