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Newgarden, Kristi; Zheng, Dongping – ReCALL, 2016
In this study of affordances for second language (L2) learning in World of Warcraft (WoW) group play, we compared three gameplay episodes spanning a semester-long course. Applying multimodal analysis framed by ecological, dialogical and distributed (EDD) views (Zheng and Newgarden, forthcoming), we explored four English as a second language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Games
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Zheng, Dongping; Schmidt, Matthew; Hu, Ying; Liu, Min; Hsu, Jesse – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The purpose of this research was to explore the relationships between design, learning, and translanguaging in a 3D collaborative virtual learning environment for adolescent learners of Chinese and English. We designed an open-ended space congruent with ecological and dialogical perspectives on second language acquisition. In such a space,…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Educational Environment, Chinese, Language Acquisition