Perceiving and traversing in-class and out-of-class learning: accounts from foreign language learners in Hong Kong

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 265-284

  Lai, Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

connection between in class and out of class learning; construction of a language learning ecology; informal learning; out of class learning; self directed language learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941731071     PISSN: 17501229     EISSN: 17501237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17501229.2014.918982     Document Type: Article

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