Come Si Fa?: Can Virtual Worlds Help Us Promote Intercultural Awareness

Authors

Susanna Nocchi, Technological University DublinFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

5.3 EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES, *training, *pedagogy

Publication Details

In the Conference Proceedings of Eurocall 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Abstract

This paper describes the author’s experience with a pilot course of Italian in SL®2. The course is part of a PhD research on Exploring the potential of virtual worlds to promote Intercultural Awareness in students learning Italian as a Foreign Language. In the paper the author will justify her choice of virtual worlds for the development of language competence and Intercultural Awareness and will present some results of her activity theoretical analysis of the data. Problematic areas and potential moments for the development of Intercultural Awareness were highlighted during the analysis.

DOI

10.21427/D7RX8C

Recommended Citation

Nocchi, S.(2012) . Come si fa? can virtual worlds help us to promote intercultural awareness In The Call Triangle: Student, Teachers and Institution:Proceedings of Eurocall 2011, University of Nottingham, 2011.