Language acquisition in Second Life: Improving self-efficacy beliefs

ASCILITE 2009 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 464-474

  Henderson, Michael ^a   Huang, Hui ^a   Grant, Scott ^a   Henderson, Lyn ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Chinese language; Second language acquisition; Second life; Self efficacy; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

BELIEFS; CHINESE LANGUAGE; SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; SECOND LIFE; SELF EFFICACY; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84870916502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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