The impacts of flexible grouping in a mobile-assisted game-based Chinese character learning approach

10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of Learning, ICLS 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 235-242

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

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^c CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHINESE CHARACTERS; COLLABORATIVE PATTERNS; GROUPING RULES; LEARNING APPROACH; LEARNING GAME; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; STUDENT COLLABORATION; STUDENT GROUPING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84878697843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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