Fitting learning into life: Language students’ perspectives on benefits of using mobile apps

ASCILITE 2012 - Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 875-880

  Steel, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Language learning; MALL; Mobile language learning; Student perspectives; University

Indexed keywords

SHOPPING CENTERS; TEACHING;

EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES; FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE LANGUAGE LEARNING; STUDENT PERSPECTIVES; UNIVERSITY; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84912572278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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