Towards a serious game for Portuguese learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6944 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 83-94

  Silva, André ^a   Mamede, Nuno ^a   Ferreira, Alfredo ^a   Baptista, Jorge ^b   Fernandes, João ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computer Assisted Language Learning; Pictorial Exercises; Portuguese; Serious Games

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; GAME SCENARIO; LANGUAGE LEARNING; PICTORIAL EXERCISES; PORTUGUESE; PORTUGUESE LANGUAGES; SERIOUS GAMES; SPATIAL POSITIONS;

STUDENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84857466652     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23834-5_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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