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Digital game-based vocabulary learning: where are we and where are we going?

Di Zoua Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong SARORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8435-9739View further author information
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Yan Huangb Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong SARView further author information
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Haoran Xieb Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong SARCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 751-777 | Published online: 25 Jul 2019

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