Towards the construction of a field: The developments and implications of mobile assisted language learning (MALL)

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 164-180

  Liu, Gi Zen ^a   Lu, Hui Ching ^a   Lai, Chun Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 85046902952     PISSN: 20557671     EISSN: 2055768X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqu070     Document Type: Article

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