Assessing Intercultural Competence Gain in a German Distance Learning Course for Adults

Distance Education and Languages: Evolution and Change

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 119-139

  Shelley, Monica ^a   Baumann, Uwe ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Education and Language Studies   (Germany)

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