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Teaching Foreign Languages in a Virtual World: Lesson Plans

Teaching Foreign Languages in a Virtual World: Lesson Plans
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Author(s): Regina Kaplan-Rakowski (Southern Illinois University, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 16
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.ch026

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Abstract

The author uses her teaching experience, gained both in the real world and in virtual worlds, to convey several potential foreign language activities that could be conducted in a virtual environment. The activities are presented in the form of lesson plans, which teachers should find useful for the preparation of their virtual lessons. The lesson plans follow the conventional format that is used in the USA, however, the lessons themselves are hardly conventional. They take advantage of several affordances of virtual worlds and present activities that are difficult, or even impossible, in a traditional classroom (e.g., traveling in time or traveling in space). Teachers are encouraged to use the lessons as examples of possible activities, which they can modify according to their experience, their preferences and their students’ needs.

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