Arguing for multilingual motivation in web 2.0: An evaluation of a large-scale European pilot

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 164-172

  Hainey, Tom ^a   Connolly, Thomas ^a   Stansfield, Mark ^a   Boyle, Liz ^a   Josephson, Joel ^b   O'Donovan, Aisling ^c   Ortiz, Claudia Rodriguez ^d   Tsvetkova, Nina ^e   Stoimenova, Bistra ^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 Sofia University ^*  (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RUSE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EDUCATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ARGS; COLLABORATION; EVALUATION; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; GAMING IN EDUCATIONS; INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 84938578172     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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