Paper Info
Title
Multi-User 3D Virtual Environment for Spanish Learning: A Wonderland Experience
Abstract
In this paper, we describe a 3D virtual collaborative system designed for the learning of Spanish as a second language. Several initiatives for second language learning in 3D virtual worlds exploiting immersive, interactive and motivating features of these worlds have been carried out successfully during the last years. However, these systems tend to be sometimes too rigid from a pedagogical point of view, requiring the presence of a teacher. We have used the Wonderland development toolkit to deploy a 3D virtual learning environment, which is flexible enough to allow learners to improve their language skills with minimum teacher’s help, setting up an instructional sequence in which fostered, motivating, and pre-designed collaboration is the key for self-learning. The environment includes technical issues such as natural text chatting with synthetic characters, textual tagging of virtual objects, automatic reading of texts, and the integration of a 3D mouse in learning sequences in order to exploit the capabilities of 3D virtual worlds.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICALT.2010.132
ICALT
Keywords
Field
DocType
minimum teacher,last year,virtual world,wonderland experience,spanish learning,automatic reading,virtual collaborative system,wonderland development toolkit,language skill,instructional sequence,virtual object,virtual environment,virtual learning environment,virtual reality,writing,3d,collaboration,engines
Educational technology,Virtual learning environment,Metaverse,Virtual machine,Virtual reality,Computer science,Exploit,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Multi-user,Instructional simulation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.44
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
María Blanca Ibáñez123716.93
José Jesús García210.44
Sergio Galán381.02
David Maroto4282.96
Diego Morillo5101.47
Carlos Delgado Kloos61121172.07