Online activities and writing practices of urban Malaysian adolescents

System

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 548-559

  Tan, Kok Eng ^a   Ng, Melissa L Y ^a   Saw, Kim Guan ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adolescent literacy practices; ESL; Internet; Writing practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649632049     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2010.09.014     Document Type: Article

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