Effects of Printed, Pocket Electronic, and Online Dictionaries on High School Students' English Vocabulary Retention

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 619-634

  Chiu, Li Ling ^a   Liu, Gi Zen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

English; Online type in dictionary; Pocket electronic dictionary; Printed dictionary; Vocabulary; Word retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882972826     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: 22437908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40299-013-0065-1     Document Type: Article

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