Mobile-assisted vocabulary learning in real-life setting for primary school students: Two case studies

6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education, WMUTE 2010: Mobile Social Media for Learning and Education in Formal and Informal Settings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 88-95

  Wong, Lung Hsiang ^a   Looi, Chee Kit ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTIC LEARNING; FORMAL LEARNING; LANGUAGE LEARNING; LEARNING DESIGNS; LEARNING ENGLISH; LEARNING MODELS; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; SOCIAL LEARNING; STUDENT LEARNING PROCESS; TRANSFORMING LANGUAGE; VOCABULARY LEARNING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING; LINGUISTICS; MOBILE DEVICES; STUDENTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954495159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WMUTE.2010.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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