Sociocultural influences on the use of a web-based tool for learning English vocabulary

System

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 48-59

  Juffs, Alan ^a   Friedline, Benjamin E ^a  

^a Department of Linguistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity theory; CALL; English for academic purposes; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890167623     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2013.10.015     Document Type: Article

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