Fostering reflective writing and interactive exchange through blogging in an advanced language course

ReCALL

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-227

  Lee, Lina ^a  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

asynchronous CMC; Blogs; interactive exchange; peer and teacher feedback; reflective writing; task based activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649964056     PISSN: 09583440     EISSN: 14740109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095834401000008X     Document Type: Article

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