A comparison of undergraduate students' English vocabulary learning: Using mobile phones and flash cards

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Başoǧlu, Emrah Baki ^a   Akdemir, Ömür ^a  

^a ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Higher education; Instructional technology; Language learning; Mobile learning; Vocabulary learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957076889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13036521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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