Integrating cross-cultural interaction through video-communication and virtual worlds in foreign language teaching programs: Is there an added value?

ReCALL

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 105-121

  Canto, Silvia ^a   Jauregi, Kristi ^a   Van Den Bergh, Huub ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Added value; Computer mediated communication; NIFLAR; Second Life; Video web communication; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888346284     PISSN: 09583440     EISSN: 14740109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0958344012000274     Document Type: Article

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