Foreign ludicity in online role-playing games

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 455-473

  Liang, Mei Ya ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

foreign language play; role playing games; Second Life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869403327     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2011.619988     Document Type: Article

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