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It offers a classification of verbal and nonverbal communication acts in the synthetic world<jats:italic>Second Life<\/jats:italic>and outlines relationships between the different types of acts that are built into the environment. The paper highlights some of the differences between the synthetic world's communication modes and those of face-to-face communication and exemplifies the interest of these for communication within a pedagogical context.<\/jats:p><jats:p>We report on the application of the methodological framework to a course in<jats:italic>Second Life<\/jats:italic>which formed part of the European project ARCHI21. This course, for Architecture students, adopted a Content and Learning Integrated Learning approach (CLIL). The languages studied were French and English. A collaborative building activity in the students\u2019 L2 is considered, using a method designed to organise the data collected in screen recordings and to code and transcribe the multimodal acts. 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