Exploration through virtual reality: Encounters with the target culture

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 663-691

  O'Brien, Mary Grantham ^a   Levy, Richard M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Faculty of EVDS

^c Virtual Reality Lab

Author keywords

Culture; Second language learning; Task based instruction; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 47149102589     PISSN: 00084506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.64.4.663     Document Type: Article

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