Reexamining the effectiveness of vocabulary learning via mobile phones

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-214

  Zhang, Haisen ^a   Song, Wei ^b   Burston, Jack ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Mobile learning; Mobile phones; Short text messages; Vocabulary learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960084444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13036521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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