Visual representations as effective instructional media in foreign language teaching

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 265-281

  Skorge, Patricia ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

foreign language teaching; instructional design; learning with visual representations; processing instructions; processing visual information

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950747834     PISSN: 01372459     EISSN: 18977499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10010-008-0011-1     Document Type: Article

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