Exploring students' perceptions of self-access English learning

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 2676-2680

  Cheng, Hsiao Fang ^a   Lin, Nina Chiulan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAKMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

autonomous learner; outside reading; Self access

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957723245     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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