Identity, sense of community and connectedness in a community of mobile language learners

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Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 361-379

  Petersen, Sobah Abbas ^a   Divitini, Monica ^a   Chabert, George ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

communities; connectedness; design; learning community; mobile community blog; Mobile language learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849117762     PISSN: 09583440     EISSN: 14740109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0958344008000839     Document Type: Article

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