Project-based language learning: An activity theory analysis

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 171-189

  Gibbes, Marina ^a   Carson, Lorna ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Activity Theory; collaborative learning; institution wide language learning; language learning; project based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900862389     PISSN: 17501229     EISSN: 17501237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17501229.2013.793689     Document Type: Article

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