Evaluating the implicit acquisition of second language Vocabulary using a live Wallpaper

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1391-1400

  Dearman, David ^a,b   Truong, Khai N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning; Contextualized vocabulary; Microlearning; Mobile; Vocabulary acquisition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; CONTEXTUALIZED VOCABULARY; MICROLEARNING; MOBILE; VOCABULARY ACQUISITION;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84862109103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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