Computer Anxiety and Attitudes toward Using Internet in English Language Classes among Iranian Postgraduate Student Teachers.
This study was designed to investigate the level of computer anxiety and the overall attitudes of Iranian postgraduate student teachers toward using the Internet in English language classes. Using a stratified random sampling, 160 participants (64 males and 96 females) were selected to take part in...
| Publicado en: | Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 355 - 375 |
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
Jun2015
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