Does word coach coach words?

CALICO Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 639-661

  Cobb, Tom ^a   Horst, Marlise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning; Corpus based learning; Data driven learning; Game based learning; Research based instruction; Vocabulary acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85069656144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20569017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11139/cj.28.3.639-661     Document Type: Article

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