Enabling Multilingual Social Interactions and Fostering Language Learning in Virtual Worlds
Samuel Cruz‐Lara, Tarik Osswald, Jean-Pierre Camal, Nadia Bellalem, Lotfi Bellalem, Jordan Guinaud · IGI Global eBooks · 2011
In order to enhance interoperability between virtual worlds, applications, and corpora, it is obvious that standards should come into place. This is the main goal of MLIF and, on a more global perspective, of the Metaverse1 project. In this paper, we study social interactions in virtual worlds, present some cues to facilitate them, and describe the empirical support that we developed for these theories. We also present a few methods for fostering language learning in virtual worlds, and we explain how we have implemented some of them.