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Testing "ImmerseMe" with Chinese Students: Acquisition of Foreign Language Forms and Vocabulary in Spanish
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Casañ-Pitarch, Ricardo; Gong, Jingtao – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The use of video games in the foreign language classroom is becoming an emerging tendency. This paper aims at analysing how the serious video game "ImmerseMe" influences the learning of Spanish as a foreign language within a group of 22 Chinese students. This research was conducted through an experiment that included testing…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Language Learning Effects through the Integration of Synchronous Online Communication: The Case of Video Communication and Second Life
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Canto, Silvia; Jauregi Ondarra, Kristi – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This article attempts to shed some light on the possible learning benefits for language acquisition and intercultural development of authentic social interaction with expert peers through computer mediated communication (CMC) tools. The environments used in this study are video communication and the 3D virtual world "Second Life." For…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research, Control Groups