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Heller, Bob – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2017
The unstructured conversations of students who chatted with Freudbot in his Second Life virtual office over a 32-month period were examined in order to better understand the nature of the virtual relationship between students and conversational agents (CA) as historical figures. This research builds on past work that examined these conversations…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Stringer, David – Second Language Research, 2017
This article presents a generative analysis of the acquisition of formulaic language as an alternative to current usage-based proposals. One influential view of the role of formulaic expressions in second language (L2) development is that they are a bootstrapping mechanism into the L2 grammar; an initial repertoire of constructions allows for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Simulation, Task Analysis