Using cell phones to improve language skills: The hadeda project

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 38 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 11-19

  Butgereit, Laurie ^a   Botha, Adele ^a   Van Niekerk, Daniel ^a  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cell phone; Language; Spelling

Indexed keywords

CELL PHONE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INSTANT MESSAGING; INTERNET BASED; LANGUAGE; OFFICIAL LANGUAGES; SPELLING; TERTIARY EDUCATION; WRITTEN WORD;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION; MOBILE PHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859884176     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12701-4_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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