An investigation of communicative competence of ESL students using electronic discussion boards

Journal of Research on Technology in Education

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 349-367

  Zha, Shenghua ^a   Kelly, Paul ^a   Park, Meeaeng Ko ^a   Fitzgerald, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicative competence; Electronic discussion boards; ESL learning; Peer interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008814503     PISSN: 15391523     EISSN: 19450818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15391523.2006.10782464     Document Type: Article

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