Promoting intercultural exchanges with blogs and podcasting: a study of Spanish–American telecollaboration

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 425-443

  Lee, Lina ^a  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

intercultural exchange; task based instruction; Web 2.0 tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953296034     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588220903345184     Document Type: Article

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