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Media-Assisted Foreign Language Learning—Concepts and Functions

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Whether media for entertainment, communication or distribution, analogue or digital learning materials, textbooks and digital multimedia that accompany textbooks or textbook-independent educational applications (apps) for smartphones—materials and media are an essential part of a contemporary communicative foreign language classroom.

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  1. Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

    Torben Schmidt

  2. University College of Teacher Education Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Thomas Strasser

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  1. Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Deutschland

    Carola Surkamp

  2. Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Deutschland

    Britta Viebrock

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Schmidt, T., Strasser, T. (2018). Media-Assisted Foreign Language Learning—Concepts and Functions. In: Surkamp, C., Viebrock, B. (eds) Teaching English as a Foreign Language. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04480-8_12

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