Users' familiar situational contexts facilitate the practice of EFL in elementary schools with mobile devices

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 101-125

  Hwang, Wu Yuin ^a   Chen, Holly S L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

familiar context; mobile learning; peer interaction; practice diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874477210     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2011.639783     Document Type: Article

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