Digital Game-Based Learning: What's Literacy Got to Do with It?

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 125-130

  Spires, Hiller A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Childhood; Content literacy; Digital media literacies; Early adolescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940459172     PISSN: 10813004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jaal.424     Document Type: Review

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