2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: LANG: Virtual worlds for learning language. Immersive learning does not have to be expensive. Summary

Virtual worlds for learning language.  
Immersive learning does not have to be expensive.
Summary

A collection of articles about language learning in virtual worlds.  These worlds cost little and are accessible around the world.  They can offer a massive opportunity For low-cost learning of a second (or more) language.    

Welcome to practice in 

English as a Foreign Language

Immersive language learning

• Scholarly articles for immersive language learning
• Language immersion (Wikipedia)
• Digital worlds cost little. Can they be immersive?

After the break

• Language games
• Digital Teaching Assistant
• Situated learning
• Web-worlds
• International meetings
• Therapy
• Places teaching a language in Kitely

• VWBPE Immersive events continue Want To Teach ESL Online? A Dimension Beyond Offers Free online Meeting Rooms.

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Virtual worlds for learning a language

Language games

• OSCC19 GUINEVERE - LEARN A LANGUAGE THROUGH GAMES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS
• The CAMELOT-GUINEVERE project: Learning language in virtual worlds.
• English as a second Language: ESOL, EFLTreasure hunt. The game of learning!!

Digital Teaching Assistant

• Language learning in virtual worlds. What the Digital Teaching Assistant could do?
• Language learning: What could a virtual (online) campus offer?
• Learning the vocabulary with AI. Two major cases. The DTA can provide an intelligent environment
• Vocabulary learning from the beginning: Can the DTA evaluate beginner performance? How?
• Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
• Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, maybe with DTA coaching. Language as an example

Situated learning

• Spanish Language Learning Island. Situated learning, immersive learning
  
• Escape to a New Way to Learn Spanish, invited post by James T. Abraham, Ph.D.
  
• English as a second Language. Virtlantis and the holodeck
  
• ESL: Interview with a Virtlantean - Jeff      
  
• Language learning in an immersive world. Maybe this is the way to do it.
• Edutopia 1 and 2: Places for practicing English as a second language
• Language learning in virtual reality. Learn It Town sim: ESL (VWMOOC)
• Language learning in an immersive world. Maybe this is the way to do it.
• Language learning in the new century: Reports: a collection of efforts
• EduNation: Virtual Worlds for language education

Web-worlds

• Web-world use case: Conversational spoken English! Or any other language

International meetings

• Hypergrid International Expo (HIE) : Multi-language: Language classes note

Therapy

• Aphasia therapy in OpenSim, Eva Park

Places teaching a language in Kitely

• Spanish Language Learning Island
• Word Forward Academy
• ESOL/EFL Learning Site

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 pm Central time (US)
• I am available for free consulting on any topic in this blog.
• Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
• I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  

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