Thursday, September 14, 2006

Postioning in Field: Change of Course

Well if it is not to late I think I am going to change my idea for the "Positioning Yourself in the Field" assignment. I would now like to look into software, particularly online, that is used to teach Second Language Acquisition. I have done some hunting for articles and there seem to be good amount. I particular interested in studies that use online technologies to connect learners to acquire language. I have seen couple of that use online "Virtual Worlds" provide learners with a practice space for learning language.

I am interested in the potential of using Voice over IP in conjunction with "Virtual Worlds" technologies to provide language learning environments. As both these technologies are very young I am finding more information about using the technologies that proceeded them such as text chatting. This could get give me insight to methods the research used and could be used with my goals.

1 comment:

พ่อบ้านเล่างานวิจัย said...

Ted - I had a chance to goof around active worlds and asked students in my class to simultaneously logged in to the world (20 avatars). Although the moment was perfunctory, they were all thrilled with the experience. I too believe that there's a big opportunity for teaching and learning in this setting and am looking forward to reading your research.