Call for Chapters: Assessing the Effectiveness of Virtual Technologies in Foreign and Second Language Instruction
Editor
Mariusz Kruk (University of Zielona Góra, Poland)
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3054
Proposals Submission Deadline: January 30, 2018
Full Chapters Due: April 30, 2018
Submission Date: August 30, 2018
INTRODUCTION
Over the last few years there has been a quite specific interest in using virtual technologies in education, including foreign/second language education. This is because virtual technologies, such as virtual worlds, are particularly relevant to language teaching/learning in view of the fact that, among other things, they present language learners with situations similar to these found in the real world; they can lower the affective filter by engaging students in situations where their fears are bypassed; they offer opportunities to communicate in a target language by means of text/voice about their features, problem solving, language, etc. Thus, language learners can develop metacognitive and metalinguistic skills and they can practice the language by interacting with virtual users or objects, a very important issue for language learners who have no or little contact with native or target language speakers.… read more. “Call: Assessing the Effectiveness of Virtual Technologies in Foreign and Second Language Instruction (book chapters)”