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A Virtual Reality-Based Collaborative Argument Mapping Approach in the EFL Classroom
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Husni Mubarok; Chi-Jen Lin; Gwo-Jen Hwang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
In language learning, it is important to foster students' computational thinking and improve their skills of building arguments and dialectical structure, teamwork, and decision accuracy. This is especially so in English language courses which aim to promote students' cultural learning interest, creative thinking, and oral presentation.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning
Negotiation of Meaning in Digital L2 Learning Interaction: Task Design versus Task Performance
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Van der Zwaard, Rose; Bannink, Anne – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
In this microanalytical study, designed as part of an interdisciplinary and intercultural virtual exchange project for undergraduate students, the authors investigate the correlation between task design on the one hand and participant interaction during task performance on the other. The task created for this study consisted of 12 low-frequency…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Collaborative Learning through Story Envisioning in Virtual Reality
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Mirzaei, Maryam Sadat; Zhang, Qiang; Meshgi, Kourosh; Nishida, Toyoaki – Research-publishing.net, 2019
We developed a story creation platform that allows for collaborative content creation in a 3D environment by utilizing avatars, animations, objects, and backgrounds. Our story envisioning platform provides a shared virtual space that promotes collaborative interaction for story construction, involving a high degree of learner input and control. It…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Computer Simulation, Story Telling, Second Language Learning
The Interplay of Tasks, Strategies and Negotiations in Second Life
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Chen, Julian ChengChiang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
Driven by interactionist theory and operationalized by task-based interaction, this study aims to investigate EFL learners' task-based negotiation in Second Life (SL), a 3D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE). A group of adult EFL learners with diverse cultural/linguistic backgrounds in L1 participated in this task-based virtual class. Learners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Computer-Assisted Learning of Communication (CALC): A Case Study of Japanese Learning in a 3D Virtual World
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Yamazaki, Kasumi – ReCALL, 2018
This study investigates an instantiation of a 3D virtual world-based Japanese learning curriculum within the context of a Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) classroom. Through a mixed-method case study approach, participants' natural acquisition of Japanese in a 3D virtual environment was examined. In the present study, four sources of data from…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Simulation, Qualitative Research
Learning to Communicate in a Virtual World: The Case of a JFL Classroom
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Yamazaki, Kasumi – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The proliferation of online simulation games across the globe in many different languages offers Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) researchers an opportunity to examine how language learning occurs in such virtual environments. While there has recently been an increase in the number of exploratory studies involving learning experiences of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Computer Games