A ubiquitous English vocabulary learning system: Evidence of active/passive attitudes vs. usefulness/ease-of-use

Computers and Education

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 273-282

  Huang, Yueh Min ^a,b   Huang, Yong Ming ^a   Huang, Shu Hsien ^a   Lin, Yen Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Applications in subject areas; Interactive learning environments; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS IN SUBJECT AREAS; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; UBIQUITOUS LEARNING; UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGY; VIDEO CLIPS; VOCABULARY LEARNING;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 80052539843     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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