Here're the materials from my demo lesson of two years ago which I did as part of my LanguageLab training. These materials have not been published so far in any form. You can use them in any way you like, as long as you do it on a non-commercial basis. The original post appeared last year on the VWLL Ning page: http://evovwll.ning.com/profiles/blogs/japanese-restaurant-vocabulary. Enjoy!


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A very useful meeting to discuss some of the crucial issues in actually planning and carrying out a SL lesson. Some important topics: taking studnts out, visiing places, using clothing for teaching, furnishing a house, teaching syntax and reading/writing in-world, object permissions... I promised to post my Japanese lesson script from two years ago (my course with LanguageLab), which I have done here: http://tlinvw.nin… Continue

The following reflection is based on my personal experiences and observation in SL. I’m not a newbie nor an expert or a researcher in the field. I would call myself a learner. I thank all organizers , moderators and builders in SL to give me the opportunity to deeply explore SL in a much more organized way than I’ve been doing on my own and the possibility of intercultural expe

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We have seen plenty of good examples here of writing-for-an audience stemming from our keyboards. Much of the writing is a one-shot event and we observe much less or no drafting and re-drafting (or even spelling checking**) in what we write. Judging from the data alone, it seems to me that the notion that writing is a process in which revising plays a huge role is all but gone in what I read and what I write myself. The fast pace of writing (writing a question, replying, ma

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