Using mobile phones in English education in Japan.
First, we polled 333 Japanese university students regarding their use of mobile devices. One hundred percent reported owning a mobile phone. Ninety-nine percent send e-mail on their mobile phones, exchanging some 200 e-mail messages each week. Sixty-six percent e-mail peers about classes; 44% e-mail...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 217 - 229 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2005
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