Second Language Teaching in Virtual Worlds: The Case of European College Students under the ERASMUS Program

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Author(s): Paulo Frias (University of Porto, Portugal), Ricardo N. Fernandes (University of Porto, Portugal)and Ricardo Cruz (University of Porto, Portugal)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 26
Source title: Multi-User Virtual Environments for the Classroom: Practical Approaches to Teaching in Virtual Worlds
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Giovanni Vincenti (Towson University, USA)and James Braman (Towson University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-545-2.ch025

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Virtual Learning Environments

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This project is a proposal for a case study that aims to describe and understand communicative and pedagogical processes involved in Second Life® (SL™) in a context of second language learning, by modelling in-world lessons of Portuguese as a second language for ERASMUS students1 arriving in Portugal. The purpose is to provide examples of situated e-learning driven activities and perceive how an immersive context stimulates learning by involving students in a virtual reality situation, where real life language context situations are provoked and where ‘not possible in real life’ learning routines happen. This will allow experiencing the advantages of this platform compared to physical life teaching and learning contexts, through the inherent characteristics of this medium, such as the synchronous and simultaneous use of voice and text.

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