2014 - Interdisciplinarity in virtual worlds: teaching approaches for acquiring a language-culture

Interdisciplinarity in virtual worlds: teaching approaches for acquiring a language-culture.

Arvanitis Panagiotis, Panagiotidis Panagiotis, Kigitsioglou-Vlachou Aikaterini (2014). 7th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Seville - Spain, 17/11/2014-19/11/2014, CD-ROM, ICERI2014 Proceedings. p.3892-3901.

Virtual Worlds are among the fastest growing areas of web 2.0, as they dispose characteristics that promote the development of all kinds of applications not only for communication and entertainment, but for education, as well. This work highlights the importance of Virtual Worlds, their potential and their contribution to foreign language education and explores the perspectives for further exploitation. Virtual Worlds can be an important tool for the cooperative learning of a foreign language and culture, and can facilitate the acquisition of the target language, while also promoting interdisciplinarity through their multi-potential dimension. The present paper presents implementations of the use of Virtual Worlds for foreign language education through interdisciplinary approaches with particular emphasis on foreign language learning and culture.

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