Podcasting: An effective tool for honing language students' pronunciation?

Language Learning and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 66-86

  Ducate, Lara ^a   Lomicka, Lara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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