Find out more about Croquelandia, the Synthetic Immersive Environment (SIE)
designed for learning Spanish pragmatics that Julie Sykes worked on.
Sykes, J. M., Oskoz, A., & Thorne, S. L. (2008). Web 2.0, synthetic immersive environments, and mobile resources for language
education. CALICO Journal, 25(3), 528-546.
"In this article, we first explore a sampling of Web 2.0 technologies (e.g., blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking) related to
collaborative content building and dissemination of information. We then consider three types of 3-dimensional virtual
environments, including open social virtualities (such as Second Life and There), massively multiplayer online games
(MMOGs) (e.g., World of Warcraft, Everquest, and Eve Online), and synthetic immersive environments (SIEs, i.e., visually
rendered spaces which combine aspects of open social virtualities with goal-directed gaming models to address specific
learning objectives). In particular, we report on SIEs as they might be used to foster interlanguage pragmatic development
and briefly report on an existing project in this area."
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