Interaction in the virtual world: an analysis of students' construal of pedagogic subject positions in a 3D virtual learning environment.

This article discusses the results of an investigation on construal of pedagogic positions in a series of online interactions between two students performing learning activities in a three-dimensional virtual learning environment. It aims at analyzing how students offer praise while performing learn...

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Publicado en:Text & Talk Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 353 - 376
Autores principales: de Oliveira, Janaina Minelli, Esteve, Vanessa, Camacho, Mar
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: De Gruyter 2013
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          Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Campus Sescelades, Carretera de Valls s/n, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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        appraisal theory
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