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Chen, Julian ChengChiang – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study intends to examine English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' attitudes toward practicing English in Second Life (SL) and to unpack the effects of avatar identities on EFL learners' sense of self-efficacy and language practices. Nine EFL learners worldwide participated in a task-based course in SL, using avatars to carry out…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Identification (Psychology), Self Efficacy, Language Usage
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Scott-Monkhouse, Anila R.; Tal, Michal; Yelenevskaya, Maria – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This paper describes a joint programme developed in 2018 by the University of Parma Language Centre (Italy) and the Humanities and Arts Department of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The aim of the project was to involve students of English for General Academic Purposes in delivering presentations to an unfamiliar foreign audience on a…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Program Descriptions, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Li, Citing; Gao, Xuesong – Language Awareness, 2017
This article reports on a study that investigated the role of metapragmatic awareness of L2 learners in Hong Kong, and the impact it has on language choices when addressing requests in English. Simulated open role-plays and retrospective interviews were used to explore the ways in which mainland Chinese undergraduates assess, plan and produce…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bailey, Angela; Gruber, Alice – The EUROCALL Review, 2020
This mixed method case study explored globalization and complex relationships through a virtual exchange project between students from Germany and Colombia in upper intermediate level English classes. We believed by providing a space for online conversation, written collaboration and discussion, students would enhance their plurilingual and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Michelson, Kristen; Dupuy, Beatrice – L2 Journal, 2014
Recent scholarship has proposed a pedagogy of multiliteracies to frame FL curricula and instruction, and encourage critical reflection about language use through a variety of discourses and textual genres. One pedagogical framework conducive to fostering learners' intersemiotic awareness is Global Simulation (GS). GS consists in the creation of a…
Descriptors: Multiliteracies, Second Language Instruction, French, Simulation