As virtual worlds offer social and immersive experiences, the main pedagogical focuses have been with constructivist educational approaches. Task-based language learning has been commonly applied to virtual world language education.<ref>{{cite news |first=R |last=O’Dowd |title=Online Intercultural Exchange: An Introduction for Foreign Language Teachers |url=http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/63/1/81 |work=Multilingual Matters |date=[[2007]]}}</ref> Dogme methods that draw on the ability to stimulate conversation and communication for language emergence have also been used to guide language learning activities.
