The impact of clickers instruction on cognitive loads and listening and speaking skills in college english class

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Yu, Zhonggen ^a,b   Chen, Wentao ^b   Kong, Yong ^b   Sun, Xiao Ling ^a   Zheng, Jing ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shaoxing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Monitoring and Prevention of Smart City   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; MULTIMEDIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH; TEACHING; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; FEMALE; MALE; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

COGNITION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; SPEECH; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84907000987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106626     Document Type: Article

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