Can we use second life for language learning and instruction?
Son zamanlarda çok kullanıcılı sanal ortamlara, diğer bir deyişle sanal dünyalara karşı öğretim tasarımcıları ve eğitmenler tarafından giderek artan bir ilgi olduğu çok açıktır. Bu ortamlardan biri de, herkes tarafından bilinen İkinci Yaşam (Second Life’tır). İkinci Yaşam’da birçok öğretimsel aktiviteler mevcuttur ve dil öğrenimi, özellikle yabancı dil öğrenimi olarak (YDÖ) İngilizce öğrenme bunlardan sadece biridir. Gartner Inc. (2007) 2011 yılının sonuna kadar aktif olarak internet kullanan kullanıcıların %80’inin İkinci Yaşam da yer alacağını belirtmiştir. Bu makalede ise İkinci Yaşam ile ilgili araştırmalar ve İkinci Yaşam’ın dil öğretiminde kullanılması incelenmiş ve öğretim tasarımcılarına ve eğitmenlere İkinci Yaşam’dan özellikle yüksek öğretimde nasıl faydalanabilecekleri hakkında bazı öneriler getirilmiştir
Dil öğrenme aracı olarak ikinci yaşam (ydö)
Over the last few years there has been an increased interest in Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs), or virtual worlds, by instructional designers anddevelopers. One of these MUVEs is a very well known world, Second Life (SL). There are many instructional activities taking place in Second Life and language learning, English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learning is just one of them. Gartner Inc. (2007) says that 80 percent of active internet users will have a “Second Life” in the virtual world by the end of 2011. In this paper, the researches and use of SL in language instruction is examined and some suggestions are offered to both instructors and designers on how they can leverage of SL especially in higher education settings.
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- ISSN: 1300-3542
- Yayın Aralığı: Yılda 2 Sayı
- Başlangıç: 2004
- Yayıncı: Ankara Üniversitesi TÖMER