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标题：Eco-dialogical learning and translanguaging in open-ended 3D virtual learning environments: Where place, time, and objects matter
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作者：Dongping Zheng ; Matthew M. Schmidt ; Ying Hu 等
期刊名称：Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
印刷版ISSN：1449-3098
电子版ISSN：1449-5554
出版年度：2017
卷号：33
期号：5
DOI：10.14742/ajet.2909
语种：English
出版社：Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
摘要：The purpose of this research was to explore the relationships between design, learning, and translanguaging in a 3D collaborative virtual learning environment for adolescent learners of Chinese and English. We designed an open-ended space congruent with ecological and dialogical perspectives on second language acquisition. In such a space, sense-making is contingent on the relational dynamics of place, activities, and artefacts. These spaces encourage meaning-making in situ, manipulation of virtual objects within places, and coordination among players. Our investigation looked at how learners of Chinese and English collaborated on a project in which they decorated a virtual living room. The findings suggest that socioculturally bounded places afford unique learning opportunities. Firstly, learning occurred through referencing , which is the mutual clarification of a virtual object’s meaning, position, and function, in relatively stabilised places, such as a museum, and secondly, learning occurred through coordination between verbal instruction and object manipulation in more adaptive places, which we call eco-dialogical learning. We also found a strong relationship between translanguaging and object manipulation. We conclude the paper from the perspective of how the eco-dialogical model resulted in designs that promoted cognition and interactivity.
关键词：ecological psychology;distributed learning;eco-dialogical translanguaging;place-based learning;object manipulation;affordance