Teacher training in a synchronous cyber face-to-face classroom: Characterizing and supporting the online teachers' learning process

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 277-293

  Wang, Yuping ^a   Chen, Nian Shing ^b   Levy, Mike ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning; Cyber face to face learning; Language teacher education; Online synchronous learning; Online teacher training

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956839473     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2010.493523     Document Type: Article

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