Using the web as a source of graded reading material for language acquisition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2783, Issue , 2003, Pages 423-432

  Uitdenbogerd, Alexandra L ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; E-LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; READING SKILLS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SENTENCE LENGTH;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 35248883132     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45200-3_39     Document Type: Article

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