%0 Journal Article 
%A Muñoz Sánchez, María
%T The use of virtual worlds in foreign language learning
%D 2017
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/19168
%X Nowadays, technology plays a fundamental role in our lives. This trend is also noticeable in
the area of education, considering that the use of ICT services is increasing in educational
centres. Considering this factor, I focused on the use of virtual worlds (VWs) for foreign
language teaching and learning. The primary objective of this senior thesis is to demonstrate
that VWs offer multiple educational applications to support the foreign language teaching and
learning processes and that the potential of VWs has not been very much explored in
language teaching and learning . For this purpose, a review of the literature based on four
journals ( ReCALL, Computers & Education, Language Learning & Technology and the
British Journal of Educational Technology) has been carried out. I have focused on the
articles published between 2010 and 2016, both included. A total number of twenty one
publications that deal with virtual worlds and foreign language teaching and learning was
found. These articles have been analyzed according to the journal and the year they were
published in, the VW they use, the language skills they enhance and the type of learning they
support. Through the aforementioned analysis, both hypotheses have been proven.

%K virtual worlds
%K foreign language learning
%K interaction
%K motivation
%K collaboration
%K serious games
%K task-based learning
%~ Universidad de Cádiz