[Welcome to my pages on 3d Virtual Worlds in Modern Language Teaching].
These pages are meant to contribute to the dissemination of experiences in, research and project results for the use of 3d MUVEs for modern language teaching and learning.

The following options are available:

• Download the abstract 'The making of … the ViTAAL project', and/or see the presentation included in the Archive of the SLanguages 2008 Conference.

  

• Download the paper 'How can 3D Virtual Worlds contribute to language education? Focus on the Language Village format', a paper presented at the WorldCALL 2008 Conference. And/or view the PPT presentation.
  For some Japan and Conference photo souvenirs click here.

• Consult the ViTAAL project portfolio or view the online white paper providing the project's rationale. (both in Dutch). This research project, exploring the potential of voice-enabled, 3D virtual worlds for language learning, is an initiative of a partnership of schools and teacher education institutions, facilitated by Kennisnet, the Dutch national Schoolnet.

• View and Listen to an introduction of the ViTAAL project presented at the Conference for Language Village pioniers organised by the Dutch Expertise Centre for Modern Languages.

• Download the speechnotes for 'Can 3D Virtual Worlds provide an alternative to RL language proficiency assessments?' at the 2008 Debate session at LanguageLab.Com

• A link to the support site of my publications on:
  Text-based Virtual Worlds and Modern Language Learning Pedagogy (in Dutch).
• Got my SLanguage Teacher Diploma in 2007 at LanguageLab.Com. For an impression of what we did see these snapshots.