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Second Life as a Social Learning Environment (Presentation at SLanguages 2009)

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

One of our students, Pierre Moussy, has been using the 3d virtual world, Second Life, to gain conversation practice. His presentation below was given at the SLanguages conference (for language education in virtual worlds); you can listen to Pierre’s presentation and follow his PowerPoint. Pierre’s talk is especially interesting because it gives us some insights into how languages learners actually use second life to talk with others in a foreign language. It also shows us how they benefit from such experiences and how language teachers can better guide their students so that they gain the most from virtual worlds.

A language learner’s experience in Second Life

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SLanguages 2009: SL as a Social Learning Environment

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

SLanguages 2009 will take place on 8 & 9 May. I will be giving a presentation together with Pierre Moussy, a student at Avatar Languages. Pierre will be presenting his experiences with practicing his English in Second Life, whereas I will focus on how language educators can best guide language learners with using virtual worlds to practice their languages. Here is the abstract…

EduNation III Amphitheatre
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SLanguages 2009: Dogme ELT for Virtual Worlds

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

SLanguages 2009 will take place on 8 & 9 May.  I will be giving a presentation about the Dogme ELT movement and how its approach to language teaching has a lot to offer language educators using virtual worlds.  Here is the abstract…

EduNation III
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IATEFL CARDIFF CONFERENCE: ONLINE WEBSITE NOW LIVE!

Friday, March 13th, 2009

There is online conference coverage of the 43rd IATEFL Conference. Here is what the website says about it…

Cardiff

The Cardiff Online website is now live at: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2009

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SLanguages 2009 – Presentation

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

The presentation for SLanguages 2009 is ready – it will be a great event and I am looking forward to it already…

SLanguages 2009 Conference – 8&9 May 2009

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SLanguages – Relatively High Survival Rates

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Conferences in virtual worlds are quite the fashion now, but it seems that the choice of world is quite important. The National Science Foundation held a conference in World of Warcraft and saw all its (virtual) attendees killed during the event!

Second Life is a far more peaceful venue for the SLanguages conference – and I’m sure the 2009 event will be just as safe as the last two, where not a single avatar was lost in action.

clipped from www.linuxinsider.com

To bring his point to a fine head, Bainbridge recently conducted a scientific conference in a game world to discuss research in game worlds. Certainly it was the ultimate of demonstrations, virtually speaking. The conference was the first ever held in “World of Warcraft” (”WoW”) and it had its upsides: None of the scientists had to physically travel and none had to buy any additional hardware. But it also had its downsides: Not everyone was familiar with the game; newbie levels limited access to key meeting places in the game world; in-game chat communications require a minimum typing speed of 50wpm; and, newbies are the natural diet for any number of monsters in the game.
Several attendees met their deaths, as in plural, on the way to the various conference dinners, events and meeting places. A few gave up after one or more resurrections. All of the near-300 attendees ended up “dead” at the end of the conference. The recently deceased lauded the success of the entire operation.
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SLanguages 2009 – 8/9 May 2009

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

The annual conference on language education in 3d virtual worlds is with us again (for the 3rd time now) and will take place on 8 & 9 May 2009 on the EduNation islands in Second Life.

SLanguages2009

Further information on the SLanguages website (www.slanguages.net).

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