The effects of Second Life on the motivation of undergraduate students learning a foreign language

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 277-289

  Wehner, Amy K ^a   Gump, Andrew W ^a   Downey, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Motivation; Second language acquisition; Second Life; Spanish; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959337497     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2010.551757     Document Type: Article

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