Effects of short-term memory and content representation type on mobile language learning

Language Learning and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 93-113

  Chen, Nian Shing ^a,b   Hsieh, Sheng Wen ^c   Kinshuk, ^d  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c FAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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