Arguing for multilingual motivation in web 2.0: Using alternate reality games to support language learning

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn 2008-January, Issue , 2008, Pages 95-104

  Connolly, Thomas ^a   Stansfield, Mark ^a   Hainey, Tom ^a   Josephson, Joel ^b   O'Donovan, Aisling ^c   Ortiz, Claudia Rodriguez ^d   Tsvetkova, Nina ^e   Tsvetanova, Sevda ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b Kindersite Project Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c Centro Navarro de Autoaprendizaje de Idiomas (CNAI)   (Spain)

^d Ahead of the Game   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RUSE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

ARGs; Collaboration; Modern foreign languages; Motivation; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938568130     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Review

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