virtual reality

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitators: Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, CLT Assistant Faculty Specialist in Learning Design Leeseul Park, Tech Center Graduate Assistant, EALL PhD student This session presents an ongoing collaboration between the Center for Language Technology (CLT) and the Korean Flagship at UH Mānoa that utilizes a commercial Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) app to foster public speaking skills in an advanced Korean course. To help students better prepare for their final course project—delivering a public speech in Korean at a live event—students in this pre-capstone Korean course use IVR to rehearse their speeches, receiving immediate personalized feedback on key performance metrics ...

In this webinar, we will share best practices on integrating virtual reality into the language classroom, tips on building your virtual world in VRChat using Unity, and suggestions on dos and don’ts in managing time, students, and technology.

Virtual reality offers promising affordances for language learning in the classroom. With virtual reality we can design and create meaningful immersive environments that focus on unique characteristics of the target language practice and culture. VR has the potential to facilitate higher performance in terms of memory and, in turn, language learning. In this online presentation, Carla Consolini will introduce a virtual reality prototype that immerses language learners in a given situation in their target language. Users of this virtual reality prototype can observe and passively interact with their environment to better understand the target language culture. The presentation will give ...