Language Learning in Virtual Worlds

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Comment by Sachiko Kamioka on May 9, 2009 at 7:53pm

Hi members,
I am recruiting learners of Chinese for MyChina Village Chinese Virtual Immersion Camp in Second Life.
http://casls.uoregon.edu/mychina.php

Comment by Morteza on February 23, 2009 at 9:39am

Thank you very much for having such a nice page and group.I'm an English teacher in Iran and very interested for teaching and learning via Internet and virtual classrooms.I'll be very happy to be active person in this group and by exchanging our info we can improve and develop different web.tool for teaching and learning.I'll be very happy if anyone to help me how can we teach and with what tools we can develop our virtual activities.All the best.Morteza Barin

Comment by Sachiko Kamioka on February 10, 2009 at 5:55pm

The Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of Oregon is planning a Chinese immersion camp in Second Life this summer (Aug., 2009) targeting intermediate-level learners at age 18 and above. Contact me if you are interested in participating as an intern, student, native Chinese speaker, or camp facilitator. If you have experience organizing language events or summer camps, I would love to talk with you.

Comment by Keira Moxie on February 10, 2009 at 3:49pm

I am looking for information just a statement from anyone who has developed/used any virtual world other than Second Life and There for teaching languages. I know SL and There have so many education resources but am curious to know if anyone has used open source software (for example Open Sim etc) to build their own sims/applications for teaching languages for private or commercial. Anyone? I am really interested in hearing about these ideas and concepts.

Comment by Howard Vickers on January 4, 2009 at 10:44pm

The slideshare presentation for SLanguages 2009 (The Conference for Language Education in Virtual Worlds on 8 - 9 May 2009) is ready - here it is.

SLanguages 2009 Conference - 8&9 May 2009

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: tesol tefl)

Please do pass the word on to those who may be interested in attending or presenting at the conference. Please also blog and twitter about it!

More info at www.slanguages.net.

Comment by willem on November 8, 2008 at 9:42am

Is practising a second language by phone (one to one) as effective as experiencing verbal contact in a virtual world? Are there any teachers out there that want to share with me. What language training islands or settings could I visit? Muchas Gracias

Comment by Mallory Destiny on November 5, 2008 at 2:38am

Open Life? Or OpenSim? I tried the last one yesterday, but don't get it running... pity. Maybe just wait a little until it is more user-friendly.
_Very_ soon it is going to be possible to transfer objects from one grid to an other, so then it will indeed be very attractive to use open, public grids.

Comment by Mike McKay / Professor Merryman on November 5, 2008 at 2:28am

I gave a presentation this weekend at JALT 2008 in Tokyo. Out of the 45 or so who attended, 80% of the mostly foreign attendees knew of Second Life, and two of them knew of Open Life. Public grids are coming to the forefront. If you haven't seen what's going on over in Open Life, I suggest you check it out IMHO. Hordes are making the jump over there as we speak. Pretty soon we will have public grids set up solely for education. It's so exciting.

Comment by Mallory Destiny on October 25, 2008 at 4:44am

I would love to learn french, but not in the usual way. I want to learn inside of Secondlife.
During my search I have found many people who would love to learn languages, or improve themselves. French who want to learn English; Americans, other Dutch (like me) and even a Taiwanese who want to learn french or spanish etc.
I have also found SL-schools, where one can learn how to get around in SL

So, what I would like to do and why I am investigating possibilities and opinions: I would wish to establish an international school in SL to learn and teach subjects that are not just SL-related.

Of course I have some more ideas on this subject. Anyone who is interested too, or who is inspired to take this journey together with me, please contact me in Second Life.
My motto: Everything is possible, we just have to find out how.
Cheers,
Mallory Destiny

Comment by Salty Saenz (Frank) on October 9, 2008 at 8:55am

The SLURL for META has changed as we relocated to other side of the island, http://tinyurl.com/metamexico

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