Understanding class blogs as a tool for language development

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 517-533

  de Almeida Soares, Doris ^a  

^a Escola Naval   (Brazil)

Author keywords

blogs; Exploratory Practice; learning English as a foreign language; social interaction; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 76049083022     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168808097165     Document Type: Article

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