Focus on context: Narratives from East Asia

System

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-63

  Griffiths, Carol ^a   Oxford, Rebecca L ^b   Kawai, Yasushi ^c   Kawai, Cassandra ^c   Park, Young Ye ^d   Ma, Xiaomei ^e   Meng, Yaru ^e   Yang, Nae dong ^f  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Oxford Associates   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Daegu National University of Education   (South Korea)

^e XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Confucian Heritage Culture; East Asia; Learning strategies; Narrative; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898539066     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

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