Verbal interaction in Second Life: Towards a pedagogic framework for task design

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-101

  Jauregi, Kristi ^a   Canto, Silvia ^a   de Graaff, Rick ^a   Koenraad, Ton ^b   Moonen, Machteld ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cmc; Intercultural communication; Second Life; Task design; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251578388     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2010.538699     Document Type: Article

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