Multiuser Digital Games as Sites for Research and Practice

Educational Linguistics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages 117-135

  Sykes, Julie M ^a   Reinhardt, Jonathon ^b   Thorne, Steven L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital Game; Game Design; Language Learning; Online Game; Social Practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868374456     PISSN: 15720292     EISSN: 22151656     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9136-9_8     Document Type: Chapter

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