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SLanguages 2009 – 8/9 May 2009
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. Further...
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SLanguages – Relatively High Survival Rates
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...
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Dogme 2.0: What “Teaching 2.0” Can Learn from Dogme ELT
At Avatar Languages we are using many web 2.0 tools in online language lessons. This “teaching 2.0” approach leads to very different kinds of lessons from normal textbook based ones. When looking for...
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Scott Thornbury in Second Life
Scott Thornbury, co-founder of the Dogme ELT movement along with Luke Meddings, will be talking in Second Life on Sunday 26 April at 18.00 (GMT), which is 11.00 PST. Dogme and Second Life are a very...
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Jeremy Harmer in 3D – Interview in Second Life
Jeremy Harmer, author of many ELT books, will be talking in Second Life on Sunday 3 May at 18.00 (GMT), which is 11.00 PST. Jeremy Harmer gave a presentation last year in Second Life (as part of the...
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SLanguages 2009: Dogme ELT for Virtual Worlds
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...
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SLanguages 2009: SL as a Social Learning Environment
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...
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Second Life as a Social Learning Environment (Presentation at SLanguages 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...
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Dogme for Virtual World Language Learning (Presentation at SLanguages 2009)
At SLanguages 2009 I gave a presentation on Dogme language teaching and its relevance to virtual world language education. Here is the presentation as text… I have been using virtual worlds such as...
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VirtualQuests: Dialogic Language Learning with 3D Virtual Worlds
The online journal “CORELL” (Computer Resources for Language Learning) recently published an article I wrote on using a Dogme approach with WebQuests in Second Life or other 3D virtual worlds. The...
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