An ethnographic study of a key-pal project: Learning a foreign language through bilingual communication

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 189-207

  Edasawa, Yasuyo ^a   Kabata, Kaori ^b  

^a DOSHISHA WOMEN'S COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 34548461152     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588220701489473     Document Type: Article

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