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Negotiation for Action: English Language Learning in Game-Based Virtual Worlds
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Zheng, Dongping; Young, Michael F.; Wagner, Manuela Maria; Brewer, Robert A. – Modern Language Journal, 2009
This study analyzes the user chat logs and other artifacts of a virtual world, "Quest Atlantis" (QA), and proposes the concept of Negotiation for Action (NfA) to explain how interaction, specifically, avatar-embodied collaboration between native English speakers and nonnative English speakers, provided resources for English language acquisition.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Syntax, Cooperation