The impact of computer-based activities on Iranian high-school students' attitudes towards computer-assisted language learning

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 183-190

  Rahimi, Mehrak ^a   Hosseini K , S Fatemeh ^a  

^a SHAHID RAJAEE TEACHER TRAINING UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Attitudes; CALL; Computer based activities; English as a foreign language; High school students

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDES; CALL; COMPUTER-BASED ACTIVITIES; ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE; HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LINGUISTICS; STUDENTS; SURVEYS; TEACHING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79952520668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2010.12.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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