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[[Task-based language learning]] (TBL) focuses on the use of authentic language and encourages students to do real life tasks using the language being learned. Tasks can be highly transactional, where the student is carrying out everyday tasks such as visiting the doctor at the Chinese island of Monash University (in Second Life). Incidental knowledge (about the medical system in China) can also be gained through such immersive TBL. Other tasks may focus on more interactional language, such as ones that involve more social activities or interviews within a virtual world.
===Dogme
The term [[Dogme_language_teaching#Dogme.2C_Technology_and_Web_2.0|Dogme 2.0]] refers to the application of [[Dogme_language_teaching|Dogme]] principles to teaching and learning languages with web 2.0 tools, including virtual worlds. Dogme has been presented as especially relevant to virtual world language learning because of the social, immersive and creative experiences offered by virtual worlds. These experiences offer opportunities for the language learning to focus on what is relevant to the learner and to stimulate language learning through conversations (either within or outside of the virtual world). <ref>{{cite news |first=Howard |last=Vickers |title=Dogme 2.0: What “Teaching 2.0” Can Learn from Dogme ELT |url=http://www.avatarlanguages.com/blog/dogme-elt-web20-dogme20 |work= Avatar Languages Blog |date=[[2009-03-15]] |accessdate = 2009-06-22 }}</ref>
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