Incidental foreign language acquisition from media exposure

Learning, Media and Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-85

  Kuppens, An H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computer games; English; Incidental language acquisition; Music; Subtitled television

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951694420     PISSN: 17439884     EISSN: 17439892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17439880903561876     Document Type: Article

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