Educational Gaming Commons - Press Start

Language acquisition through virtual worlds is something PSU faculty have been exploring for over a year now. Gloria Clark is using Second Life to great effect in her Spanish language courses and Steve Thorne is researching language acquisition within World of Warcraft. I stumbled on to another interesting 3D environment for language learning yesterday: 3DLanguage.net by Coccinella.

They are using the Torque engine to help create the 3D environments used by the students. So far they have learning environments for:
English
Arabic
Spanish

Looks like the language learning in 3D is catching on!