Student Game Design for Language Learning

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Student Game Design for Language Learning. / Schmidt, Torben.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. ed. / Lee McCallum; Dara Tafazoli. Vol. 1 1. ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

Harvard

Schmidt, T 2025, Student Game Design for Language Learning. in L McCallum & D Tafazoli (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. 1 edn, vol. 1, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51447-0_140-1

APA

Schmidt, T. (2025). Student Game Design for Language Learning. In L. McCallum, & D. Tafazoli (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (1 ed., Vol. 1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51447-0_140-1

Vancouver

Schmidt T. Student Game Design for Language Learning. In McCallum L, Tafazoli D, editors, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. 1 ed. Vol. 1. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2025 doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-51447-0_140-1

Bibtex

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