Does second life improve mandarin learning by overseas chinese students?

Language Learning and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 36-56

  Lan, Yu Ju ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese as a second language; Mandarin; Task based learning; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901237741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10943501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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