L'italiano al telefonino: Using SMS to support beginners' language learning

ReCALL

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 315-330

  Kennedy, Claire ^a   Levy, Mike ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cell phone; Italian; mobile learning; mobile phone; pedagogy; SMS; vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849124271     PISSN: 09583440     EISSN: 14740109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0958344008000530     Document Type: Article

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