Do they learn differently? An investigation of the pre-service teachers from US and China

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 836-845

  You, Zhuran ^a   Jia, Fenran ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross cultural differences; Learning preferences; Pre service teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849114832     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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