Videoconferencing with strangers: Teaching Japanese EFL students verbal backchannel signals and reactive expressions

Intercultural Pragmatics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 279-310

  Sardegna, Veronica Gabriela ^a   Molle, Daniella ^a  

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EID: 77954678576     PISSN: 1612295X     EISSN: 1613365X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IPRG.2010.013     Document Type: Article

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