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标题：ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES IN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY STUDIES THROUGH ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION IN SECOND LIFE
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作者：Mercedes Rico García ; Paula Ferreira da Silva
期刊名称：The Journal of Teaching English With Technology
印刷版ISSN：1642-1027
出版年度：2018
卷号：18
期号：02
页码：69
出版社：IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group
摘要：Living in a global world involves not only mastering languages, but also dealing withdifferent habits and values. It becomes critical with students trained to deal with amulticultural public, such as the group of learners from tourism covered by our research. Ourproposal aims to analyze whether the virtual world of Second Life (SL) facilitates thedevelopment of English for Specific Purposes and the acquisition of interculturalcommunication. To cover the objective qualitative and quantitative research were conductedalong a four-phased in/out SL instruction. Questioning about the differences between themean score obtained by experimental and control groups shows no significant differences inthe acquisition of language regarding face to face and Second Life interaction, butdemonstrates a positive tendency in the case of intercultural competences.
关键词：Second Life; English for Specific Purposes; intercultural competence