Exploration of the attitudes of freshman foreign language students toward using computers at a Turkish State University

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-31

  Akbulut, Yavuz ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attitudes; CALL; Computer assisted writing; Computer mediated communication (CMC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449561355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13036521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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