Promoting foreign language collaborative writing through the use of Web 2.0 tools and tasks

Task-Based Language Teaching

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 115-147

  Oskoz, Ana ^a   Elola, Idoia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85150192170     PISSN: 1877346X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/tblt.6.05osk     Document Type: Chapter

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