Instructor accents in online education and their effect on learning and attitudes.

Reductions in perceptual fluency have been shown to negatively impact attitudes towards learning material, but not learning itself. The current study extends this work to spoken presentations and examines whether the presence of a foreign accent negatively affects learners' experience in an online l...

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Publicado en:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 494 - 503
Autores principales: Sanchez, C. A., Khan, S.
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2016
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