Games for academic vocabulary learning through a virtual environment

Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 295-298

  Pala, Kiran ^a   Singh, Anil Kumar ^b   Gangashetty, Suryakanth V ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b KIIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Academic vocabulary; Architecture; Assistive mechanism; Content representation; Explicit learning; Games for learning; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY; ASSISTIVE; CONTENT REPRESENTATION; EXPLICIT LEARNING; GAMES FOR LEARNING; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

ARCHITECTURE; EDUCATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84863398731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IALP.2011.67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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