Narrative-oriented software for the learning of a foreign language: Tools Helping Young People to Develop Communication Skills

Technology-Mediated Narrative Environments for Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 27-40

  Earp, Jeffrey ^a   Giannetti, Tania ^a giannetti@itd.cnr.it">  

^a Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche   (Italy)

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