Multi-user virtual environments: User-driven design and implementation for language learning

Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments: Applying Dynamic Elements to the Modern Classroom

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 283-305

  Sykes, Julie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 84872159700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-822-3.ch016     Document Type: Chapter

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