Motivating students' foreign language and culture acquisition through web-based inquiry

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 640-657

  Altstaedter, Laura Levi ^b   Jones, Brett ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Foreign language instruction; Motivation; Technology enhanced language learning; Webquests

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649110302     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2009.01047.x     Document Type: Article

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