Situational language training for hotel receptionists

摘要

This paper presents the lessons learned inexperimenting with Thetis, an EC projectfocusing on the creation and localizationof enhanced on-line pedagogical contentfor language learning in tourism industry.It is based on a general innovative approachto language learning that allowsemployees to acquire practical oral andwritten skills while navigating a relevantprofessional scenario. The approach is enabledby an underlying platform(EXILLS) that integrates virtual realitywith a set of linguistic, technologies tocreate a new form of dynamic, extensible,goal-directed e-content.