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Yalun Zhou; Rahul Divekar – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
The integration of design thinking with extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential for second language (L2) learning by providing immersive, interactive, and personalized experiences. Despite significant advancements in XR and AI technologies, their practical integration within formal language education…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation
Ratna Andhika Mahaputri; Emi Emilia; Eri Kurniawan; Suwarno – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
Although the notion of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has been widely promoted in language classrooms, few empirical studies report how social media, such as Instagram, could be used as a virtual learning platform to engage students in learning how to communicate interculturally. Framed within the global Englishes (GE) concept as the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Intercultural Communication, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Yi-Ju Wu; Dorothy M. Chun – Educational Technology & Society, 2025
Although the number of studies investigating the use of immersive VR (iVR) for language learning is rapidly rising, only a few studies have examined how teachers learn to incorporate iVR into their lesson planning and how they can take advantage of the unique affordances of the medium to aid language learning. This article reports on how 50…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Instructional Design, Preservice Teachers, Technology Uses in Education
Bacca-Acosta, Jorge; Tejada, Julian; Fabregat, Ramon; Kinshuk; Guevara, Juan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Scaffolding is a mechanism for helping novice learners to solve a problem or complete a task that is beyond their current skill set. Prior research on immersive virtual reality (IVR) environments with scaffolding has mainly focused on the effectiveness of scaffolding for conceptual understanding and information processing. However, research on…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Eye Movements, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Palalas, Agnieszka; Wark, Norine – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Mobile technology melds the mobile learner's authentic real and virtual worlds, enabling increasingly untethered personalized, learner-determined language learning opportunities. This article introduces an evidence-based framework founded upon cumulative findings from a number of the authors' recent and ongoing research projects. This framework…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wesely, Pamela M., Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2021
The 2021 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages forged a fresh perspective for the organization with a virtual setting. Held March 11-13, 2021, the conference offered flexible scheduling for educators balancing a multitude of unique teaching situations in the midst of the COVID 19 Pandemic. The theme, "One…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Conferences (Gatherings), Teaching Methods
Sun, Susan Y. H.; Goodyear, Peter – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
University students involved in online courses play an active role in adapting the tasks they are set and the environment(s) in which they work. They also make adjustments to their working relationships with other people in an effort to improve their learning and/or fit study demands into wider life. The term "co-configuration" refers to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Design
Vuylsteke, Jean-François – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Assessing the skills of the students who take part in a Virtual Exchange (VE) project is a challenging and complicated task, especially if it aims to engage both the students and VE co-organisers in the feedback and evaluation process. The objective of this chapter is to outline the pedagogical design of a business communication skills course and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, International Educational Exchange, Course Descriptions, Second Language Learning
Tsai, Cheng-Chang – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
The main purpose of this study was to examine the differences in students' English vocabulary learning performance as well as the instructional materials motivation, comparing the traditional lecturing method and the Augmented Reality method. This study adopted an unequal pre-test and post-test experimental design. Overall, there were a total of…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Egbert, Joy L.; Shahrokni, Seyed Abdollah; Zhang, Xue; Yahia, Intissar Ahmed; Borysenko, Nataliia; Mohamed, Adnan F. Saad; Herman, David; Lopez-Lopez, Sonia; Ezeh, Chioma; Aljarih, Faraj – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
The body of research on CALL tasks and topics grows daily; however, there are still a number of areas that are underrepresented in the literature. While there are many gaps in the CALL research to address, this article specifically focuses on eight gaps, chosen because of their perceived importance in improving CALL evidence and research practices…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Mirzaei, Maryam Sadat; Meshgi, Kourosh; Nishida, Toyoaki – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The emergence of virtual worlds and simulation games provide ample opportunities for developing cultural competence by offering a visual, contextual, immersive, and interactive experience. Learners can benefit from contextual interactions and develop cultural competencies by fulfilling quests or exploring the environment. However, most of the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Dolcini, Grace; Phelps, Grit Matthias – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Globalization and the digitalization of our lives have made it impossible to avoid (inter)cultural encounters. In the traditional classroom environment, students are expected to juggle a myriad of choices almost simultaneously. Factors like grammar, pronunciation, word choice, etc. are all important assessment factors to consider when looking at…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Instructional Design, Personal Autonomy
Hadjistassou, Stella Kyprou – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2017
This article explores the underlying processes involved as two experienced Portuguese as a foreign language instructors, who are novices to 3D technologies, became immersed in the epistemology of teaching in a 3D context. The two instructors undertook a challenging initiative to develop and deliver two sections of oral Portuguese in a 3D…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Rienties, Bart; Lewis, Tim; McFarlane, Ruth; Nguyen, Quan; Toetenel, Lisette – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
Language education has a rich history of research and scholarship focusing on the effectiveness of learning activities and the impact these have on student behaviour and outcomes. One of the basic assumptions in foreign language pedagogy and CALL in particular is that learners want to be able to communicate effectively with native speakers of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Motteram, Gary; Koenraad, Ton; Outakoski, Hanna; Jauregi, Kristi; Molka-Danielsen, Judith; Schneider, Christel – Research-publishing.net, 2014
The Euroversity Network project (2011-2014) has built a Good Practice Framework (GPF) that functions as a heuristic for course and activity designers wishing to develop courses and other materials for use in a range of virtual worlds. This framework has been tested with a number of courses during the running of the project and the aim is that it…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Older Adults, Heuristics, Guidelines