Using a 3D online game to assess students' foreign language acquisition and communicative competence

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8095 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-31

  Berns, Anke ^a   Palomo Duarte, Manuel ^a   Dodero, Juan Manuel ^a   Valero Franco, Concepción ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

computer supported language learning; Cooperative learning; virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES; COOPERATIVE LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING; LANGUAGE LEARNING; LITERATURE REVIEWS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER GAMES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84883314646     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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