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Attitude and Self-Efficacy Change: English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds
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Zheng, Dongping; Young, Michael F.; Brewer, Robert A.; Wagner, Manuela – CALICO Journal, 2009
This study explored affective factors in learning English as a foreign language in a 3D game-like virtual world, Quest Atlantis (QA). Through the use of communication tools (e.g., chat, bulletin board, telegrams, and email), 3D avatars, and 2D webpage navigation tools in virtual space, nonnative English speakers (NNES) co-solved online…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, English (Second Language)