How flexible grouping affects the collaborative patterns in a mobile-assisted chinese character learning game?

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 174-187

  Wong, Lung Hsiang ^a   Hsu, Ching Kun ^b   Sun, Jizhen ^c   Boticki, Ivica ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Chinese character learning; Flexible student grouping; Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL); Mobile Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (mCSCL); Orthographic awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876700005     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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