CALL for Endangered Languages: Challenges and Rewards
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Endangered languages, endangered knowledge
ogist, and ethnobiologist. She is cofounder and President of Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity. Terralingua is an international NGO based in Washington, DC, devoted to supporting the world’s linguistic diversity and to exploring the links between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity, through research, information, education, and policy. She is editor of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Computer Assisted Language Learning
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0958-8221,1744-3210
DOI: 10.1076/call.16.2.233.15885