Iranian English for academic purposes (EAP) stakeholders' attitudes toward using the Internet in EAP courses for civil engineering students: promises and challenges

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-38

  Atai, Mahmood Reza ^a   Dashtestani, Reza ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

attitudes; Internet; Internet based skills; online EAP courses; reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873171197     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2011.627872     Document Type: Article

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