Blog9-Week14 Discussion Questions about Unintended Outcomes in SL

When I played Quest Atlantis, I learned how I can communicate with other residents rather than how I can use language itself. I tried to participate in some activities such as question, but actually I didn't pay attention to target language much. I enjoyed chatting with other participants, and changing an avatar's clothes, hair, and skin color. However, I chose avatar's appearance defffernted from my appearance in First Life. I didn't have exact reasons, but I chose it just for fun!! Thinking back over my experience of QA, I couldn't enhance intercultural literacy and cultural identities for just an hour.  As the author said, I needed supportive social contex that emphasises cooperation because almost of time I spent by myself except when I have small talk to others. That's why I couldn't consider me as a part of community. Of course, if I continue QA for more long time, I may enhance intercultural literacy, or cultural identities. However, so far, I couldn't learn those abilities from SL. In fact, I don't like playing game like 3D virtual even if it aim to learn language. I think there are preferences of learners, so some can learn a lot of thing including  intercultural literacy and cultural identities from SL, but other like me can't learn anything from it.