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 to improve their speaking performance. 

We will demonstrate how this IVR experience is integrated into the current course, discuss how IVR creates a personalized, low-stake space for students to practice public speaking, show how students and teachers use app-generated data to enhance performance, and share practical strategies for teachers to guide and support students using IVR. 

Join us for an insightful presentation on leveraging Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) to help language learners develop public speaking skills and explore ideas for using IVR in your own class!