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For a Better Dictionary: Revisiting Ecolexicography as a New Paradigm
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 281-321 (2022) (2022)
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Affordances of 3D Virtual Environments for English Language Learning: An Ecological Psychological Analysis
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In: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zhengd/files/DZhengTOC.pdf
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The goal of this dissertation is to systematically explore teaching and learning English as a foreign language in a 3D game-like multi-user virtual learning environment (MUVE), Quest Atlantis (QA). This dissertation project is comprised of two studies, offering distinct theoretical perspectives and analytic data techniques for measuring and describing the phenomenon of English language learning in the virtual world. These studies, however, share the same meta-theoretical framework of learning by doing (Dewey, 1910), in that thinking and the use of language are in service to action, not just about action. Study 1 – Attitude and Self-Efficacy Change – used quasi-experimental design and quantitative analytic tools to measure the differences of Controls and a QA group’s affective factors and English achievement test during a one academic year’s intervention, during which QA participants explored English-only QA worlds, completed content driven quests, and chatted with native English speakers. The findings, that the experimental group reported a more positive attitude and higher self-efficacy than the control group toward various aspects of language learning and use, are significantly important for both educational research and classroom practice. Failure to find differences on standardized post performance tests of English writing raises issues concerning the trade-offs between test preparation and engaging activities that may sustain learning.
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.471.8104
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