Effects of multimedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension of advanced learners of english as a foreign language

Instructional Science

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 499-517

  Akbulut, Yavuz ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Generative theory of multimedia learning; Incidental vocabulary learning; Media in education; Multimedia hypermedia systems; Reading comprehension; Second foreign language learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148882003     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-007-9016-7     Document Type: Article

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