Improving English as a foreign language writing in elementary schools using mobile devices in familiar situational contexts

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 359-378

  Hwang, Wu Yuin ^a   Chen, Holly S L ^a   Shadiev, Rustam ^b   Huang, Ray Yueh Min ^b   Chen, Chia Yu ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

EFL writing; familiar context; mobile learning; situated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906767023     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2012.733711     Document Type: Article

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