Affordances of three-dimensional virtual environments for English language learning: An ecological psychological analysis

Dongping Zheng

(2006) pp. 1–124

The goal of this dissertation is to systematically explore teaching and learning English as a foreign language in a 3D game-like multi-user virtual learning environment (MUVE), Quest Atlantis (QA). This dissertation project is comprised of two...

Caring in the Dynamics of Design and Languaging: Exploring Second Language Learning in 3D Virtual Spaces

Dongping Zheng

Language Sciences Vol. 34, No. 5 (September 2012) pp. 543–558

This study provides concrete evidence of ecological, dialogical views of languaging within the dynamics of coordination and cooperation in a virtual world. Beginning level second language learners of Chinese engaged in cooperative activities...

Self-Directed Use of Mobile Devices for Language Learning beyond the Classroom

Chun Lai; Dongping Zheng

ReCALL Vol. 30, No. 3 (2018) pp. 299–318

The essence of mobile learning is learners' agentic use of mobile devices to create learning experiences across time and space. Thus, understanding learners' perceptions and preferred use of mobile devices for learning are critical to realizing the...

Multimodal Analysis of Language Learning in World of Warcraft Play: Languaging as Values-Realizing

Dongping Zheng; Kristi Newgarden; Michael F. Young

ReCALL Vol. 24, No. 3 (September 2012) pp. 339–360

Applying Communicative Project theory (Linell, 2009), we identify and distinguish between the different coordination and language activities that emerged during an episode of "World of Warcraft" ("WoW") gameplay involving English Language learners ...

Vocabulary Learning in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: Context and Action before Words

Dongping Zheng; Michael Bischoff; Betsy Gilliland

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 63, No. 5 (2015) pp. 771–790

Drawing on ecological and dialogical perspectives on language and cognition, this exploratory case study examines how vocabulary learning occurs during a quest-play mediated in English between a Japanese undergraduate student and a native speaker of ...

Attitude and Self-Efficacy Change: English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds

Dongping Zheng; Michael F. Young; Robert A. Brewer; Manuela Wagner

CALICO Journal Vol. 27, No. 1 (September 2009) pp. 205–231

This study explored affective factors in learning English as a foreign language in a 3D game-like virtual world, Quest Atlantis (QA). Through the use of communication tools (e.g., chat, bulletin board, telegrams, and email), 3D avatars, and 2D...

Agency Construction Through Agentic Learning via Mobile Technology

Yang Liu; Dongping Zheng; Daniel Holden; Peiyu Wang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 1520–1523

This paper delineates the relationship between play, language learning, and agency through mobile-assisted gameplay. Following Thibault (2004), play involves a de-location of activities from their original context, and a relocation of these...

Topics: Social Studies, Video, E-Learning Trends and Innovations (social learning, mobile, augmented etc.)

Eco-dialogical learning and translanguaging in open-ended 3D virtual learning environments: Where place, time, and objects matter

Dongping Zheng; Matthew Schmidt; Ying Hu; Min Liu; Jesse Hsu

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 33, No. 5 (Oct 31, 2017)

The purpose of this research was to explore the relationships between design, learning, and translanguaging in a 3D collaborative virtual learning environment for adolescent learners of Chinese and English. We designed an open-ended space congruent...

Place-based Language Learning Using Mobile Technology: A Case Study Using a Multi-Cultural Context in Hawai?i

Daniel Holden; Yang Liu; Jared Tomei; Dongping Zheng; Jianhua Wang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 194–201

By utilizing a combination of theories of place-based learning and mobile technology, the research team at a university in Hawai?i was able to implement their design-based research into a real world game for a target group of ESL students. During...

Topics: Instructional Design, Evaluation, Physical Education, Content Development

Negotiation for Action: English Language Learning in Game-Based Virtual Worlds

Dongping Zheng; Michael F. Young; Manuela Maria Wagner; Robert A. Brewer

Modern Language Journal Vol. 93, No. 4 (2009) pp. 489–511

This study analyzes the user chat logs and other artifacts of a virtual world, "Quest Atlantis" (QA), and proposes the concept of Negotiation for Action (NfA) to explain how interaction, specifically, avatar-embodied collaboration between native...