@inbook{64ac37cce566488aa44e22d9743f3759,
title = "Pragmatic competence in virtual environments The use of consciousness-raising affordances",
abstract = "Virtual environments (VE) can mimic the dimensions that native speakers take into account in authentic social interactions and are one of the instructional conditions that can promote pragmatic competence. I present the results of a study examining the relationship between self-regulated behaviors in a VE and gains in pragmatic competence. The VE was designed to promote knowledge of Spanish request parameters and employed consciousness-raising (CR) features. Third-year learners of Spanish (N=24) explored the VE by approaching avatars and requesting various objects/ favors to solve the task. Specifically, I focus on affordances identified to predict pragmatic gains in the CR condition (Collentine & Collentine, 2023) to study the extent to which CR features in VEs interact with and account for gains in pragmatic abilities.",
keywords = "affordances, CALL, consciousness-raising, pragmatic competence, second language learning, Spanish",
author = "Karina Collentine",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 John Benjamins Publishing Company.",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1075/ihll.41.10col",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "245--267",
booktitle = "Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics",
address = "Netherlands",
}