Forming an instructional approach to teach web searching skills to non-English users

Program

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 170-179

  Lazarinis, Fotis ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adult education; Greece; Information literacy; Information retrieval; Search engines; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249010474     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00330330710742935     Document Type: Article

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