An activity theory perspective on student-reported contradictions in international telecollaboration

Language Learning and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 82-103

  Basharina, Olga K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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