Task design and its induced learning effects in a cross-institutional blog-mediated telecollaboration

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 285-305

  Chen, Wen Chun ^a   Shih, Yu Chih Doris ^b   Liu, Gi Zen ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

blog; communicative writing; duration time; social networking; task type; telecollaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930478670     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2013.818557     Document Type: Article

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