Sense of community among mobile language learners: Can blogs support this?

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 428-445

  Petersen, Sobah Abbas ^a   Divitini, Monica ^a   Chabert, George ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Learning community; Mobile community blog; Mobile language learning; Social constructionism

Indexed keywords

BLOGS;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; LEARNING COMMUNITY; MOBILE COMMUNITY; MOBILE LANGUAGE LEARNING; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77956835871     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2009.025217     Document Type: Article

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