Using Virtual Reality Tools for Teaching Foreign Languages

Peixoto, Bruno; Pinto, Darque; Krassmann, Aliane Loureiro; Melo, Miguel; Cabral, Luciana; Bessa, Maximino

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_56

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“…Both of them agree that VR can play a valuable role in the learning process (Hansen & Petersen 2012). For teachers, VR is seen as a new and valuable tool to engage students by converting the theoretical concepts into these new practices that can facilitate the student's learning (Wang et al 2015;Andresen & van den Brink 2013, Peixoto et al 2019.From the students point-of-view, there are two approaches: the use of these technologies as complementary to the ordinary curriculum or as an application that promotes autonomous learning, often by means of gamification. When used as a complementary tool to the regular curriculum, students have revealed not only better learning outcomes but also more satisfaction and motivation to learn the new language (Ijaz et al 2017).…”

Section: Vr-based Language Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era: A forecast of new and emerging language technologies

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Sousa‐Silva²,

Höhn³

et al. 2021

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New language technologies are coming, thanks to the huge and competing private investment fuelling rapid progress; we can either understand and foresee their effects, or be taken by surprise and spend our time trying to catch up. This report scketches out some transformative new technologies that are likely to fundamentally change our use of language. Some of these may feel unrealistically futuristic or far-fetched, but a central purpose of this report - and the wider LITHME network - is to illustrate that these are mostly just the logical development and maturation of technologies currently in prototype. But will everyone benefit from all these shiny new gadgets? Throughout this report we emphasise a range of groups who will be disadvantaged and issues of inequality. Important issues of security and privacy will accompany new language technologies. A further caution is to re-emphasise the current limitations of AI. Looking ahead, we see many intriguing opportunities and new capabilities, but a range of other uncertainties and inequalities. New devices will enable new ways to talk, to translate, to remember, and to learn. But advances in technology will reproduce existing inequalities among those who cannot afford these devices, among the world’s smaller languages, and especially for sign language. Debates over privacy and security will flare and crackle with every new immersive gadget. We will move together into this curious new world with a mix of excitement and apprehension - reacting, debating, sharing and disagreeing as we always do. Plug in, as the human-machine era dawns.

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The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era: A forecast of new and emerging language technologies

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Sousa‐Silva²,

Höhn³

et al. 2021

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“…Therefore, it was believed that they expected to come across some technology in their learning as well. Research showed that traditional teaching techniques sometimes happened to fail because they didn't meet the students' learning expectations (Martin-Gutierrez, Mora, Anorbe-Diaz, Gonzales-Marrero, 2017, Peixoto, Pinto, Krassmann, Melo, Cabral, Bessa, 2019. So, technology and e-learning materials were first used purely for motivational reasons.…”

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Applying Ideas of The Instructional Design to Developing E-learning Materials for University Students

PETROVA¹,

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2021

TSNI 2021 - Textbook: Focus on Students’ National Identity

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Education just like all other spheres of our life is undergoing digital transformations. Traditional education media are giving way to e-learning resources that are gaining popularity both among educators and students. Educators face a challenging task of developing e-learning materials to satisfy their requirements but find out that traditional general didactic principles and teaching methods can not be applied to designing digital materials without proper adaptation. The article aims to show how to apply Instructional Design models and concepts to developing e-learning materials for foreign language teaching. The authors emphasize the importance of the Analysis stage of the ADDIE model at which the education needs of the target audience are identified and specified and the education goals are set. The paper shows how to apply the SMART and CLEAR models to setting goals. The paper suggests that the learning habits and preferences of the target audience have to be considered as well. The authors describe the research results obtained with the help of various methods and show how they affected the design of the course materials they developed. The authors conclude that proper consideration of the target audience's needs and evaluation of the e-learning materials in the teaching process are key to the successful course design.

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“…AR technologies are likely to become popular and widely-spread in education. Research shows that since in contemporary students' lives technology is everywhere, students expect technology to be used in teaching as well, and traditional teaching methods can sometimes fail as they are not considered motivating enough to make students learn [Peixoto et al, 2019].…”

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AR/VR technologies in management and education

2021

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The potential of some technological innovations for a long period of time remains either not fully explored or underestimated. The article gives a brief description of the AR and VR technologies, shows the possibilities of their use in various sectors and industries of the modern world economy. The paper provides an overview of the positive aspects and competitive advantages that AR and VR technologies can bring to companies engaged in the development and production of devices and instruments that allow using these technologies. This is a growth in sales of products and services, a reduction in operating costs, an increase in customer satisfaction, an improvement in the quality of product, services and service. The study also considers the limitations of using AR and VR technologies in educational environments. According to the authors, there are more industries and areas where AR and VR technologies can be applied.The paper analyses the volume of investments in the field of VR / AR, gives the forecasts of possible improvements of VR and AR devices, leading to creating of wider opportunities for their utilization in industrial, financial and educational spheres. The article presents the most successful examples of the implementation of AR and VR technologies in 2012-2021 in foreign and Russian companies. For statistical confirmation of the obtained results the authors performed a correlation analysis of the forecast estimates of the development of AR and VR technologies in 2021–2023. The paper makes the forecast of sales of technologies and devices in some sectors of the economy by 2024. Based on the analysis, the study concludes that there is a significant relationship between the electronics market as a whole and the VR/AR market.

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Using Virtual Reality Tools for Teaching Foreign Languages

Cited by 24 publications

References 10 publications

The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era: A forecast of new and emerging language technologies

The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era: A forecast of new and emerging language technologies

Applying Ideas of The Instructional Design to Developing E-learning Materials for University Students

AR/VR technologies in management and education

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