Exploring college students' attitudes and self-efficacy of mobile learning

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 148-154

  Yang, Shih hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer self efficacy; Language learning; m learning; Task based approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867160986     PISSN: 13036521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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