Comments on: Reimagining Language Lessons for Immersive Learning in Virtual Reality https://fltmag.com/reimagining-language-lessons-for-immersive-learning-in-virtual-reality/ IALLT's free language technology magazine Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:58:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Amelia Ijiri https://fltmag.com/reimagining-language-lessons-for-immersive-learning-in-virtual-reality/#comment-178969 Mon, 07 Mar 2022 01:53:13 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=6781#comment-178969 In reply to Ton Koenraad.

Dear Ton Koenraad,

Thank you for your comments and for sharing additional resources. I see we have some connections in common; researchers using VR for language learning.

I hope the online pivot creates even more interest in the field, particularly for virtual exchanges with partnering institutions.

]]> By: Ton Koenraad https://fltmag.com/reimagining-language-lessons-for-immersive-learning-in-virtual-reality/#comment-178074 Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:03:24 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=6781#comment-178074 Thank you for your contribution. In reaction to this section of your conclusiton ‘[…] Consider if educators used that level of reality combined with a library of environments and assets for language learners – VR could offer life-like simulations for language learners that are higher quality and more varied that what is available now in textbooks, and immersive learning might have a permanent place in language education. The digital shift to an online environment could potentially create virtual exchanges between partnering institutions’ I am sharing some publications.
Although resulting from pilots using predecessor 3D technologies they could well be of interest for the future exploration of V/XR platforms for CALL as they were pedagogy driven and TBLT-based.

Canto, S. (2020). Integrating intercultural telecollaboration in foreign language learning programmes – The case of video communication and virtual worlds. (159 p.). LOT
https://www.lotpublications.nl/Documents/556_fulltext.pdf

Hoffstaedter, K., & Kohn, K. (2015). Telecollaboration for intercultural foreign language conversations in secondary school contexts: task design and pedagogic implementation.
In TILA Research Results on Telecollaboration. Retrieved from http://www.tilaproject.eu/moodle/mod/page/view.php?id=1495

Jauregi Ondarra, M.K., Canto, S., de Graaff, R., Koenraad, T. & Moonen, M.L.I. (2011). Verbal interaction in Second Life: Towards a pedagogic framework for task design. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 24 (1), (pp. 77-101) (24 p.).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09588221.2010.538699

Koenraad, A.L.M. (2008b). How-Can-3D-Virtual-Worlds-Contribute-to-Language-Education
Paper presented at the 3rd International WorldCALL Conference: Using Technologies for Language Learning (WorldCALL 2008, Fukuoka, Japan)
https://www.tellconsult.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/How-Can-3D-Virtual-Worlds-Contribute-to-Language-Education-2.pdf

Motteram, G., Koenraad, T., Outakoski, H., Jauregi Ondarra, Kristi, Molka-Danielsen, J. & Schneider, C. (2014). The Euroversity Good Practice Framework (EGPF) and its application to minority languages and elder learners. In S. Jager, L. Bradley, E. Meima & S. Thouësny (Eds.), CALL Design: Principles and Practice (pp. 241-247) (7 p.). Research-publishing.net.
https://research-publishing.net/manuscript?10.14705/rpnet.2014.000225

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