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Saeed Khazaie; Saman Ebadi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
This quasi-experimental study explored the feasibility of the augmented reality game-supported flipped classrooms for English for Medical Purposes reading among 464 students from the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in two phases. In the quantitative phase, the participants watched the pre-recorded lectures on English for Medical Purposes…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Computer Simulation, Reading Comprehension, English for Special Purposes
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Yu-Fen Yang; Wen-Min Hsieh; Wing-Kwong Wong; Yi-Chun Hong; Siao-Cing Lai – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) is considered a central affective factor influencing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning. This study thus developed an online simulation game to create a virtually situated learning environment for reducing EFL primary school students' FLA levels and improving their English vocabulary learning. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Marjan Ebadijalal; Nouroddin Yousofi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
The current mixed-methods study aimed at incorporating a virtual reality (VR) tool (i.e. Google Expeditions) into the writing process of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, examining its impact on their writing motivation and performance. To that end, 42 EFL learners were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Maps, Geography, English (Second Language)
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Kruk, Mariusz – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The first part of the paper offers the characteristics of the affective variables of willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom as located within the framework of the complex dynamic systems. The second part aims to discuss the results of a study intended to examine the effect of "Second Life" on two English…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Student Motivation, Attention Control
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Xie, Ying; Chen, Yan; Ryder, Lan Hui – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
This article reports a mixed-methods study about using virtual reality (VR) tools (Google Cardboard and Expeditions) for developing students' oral proficiency in learning Chinese as a second language. Twelve students role-played as tour guides for six locations throughout a semester: four of them with VR tools and two without. Data collection…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Simulation, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Wu, Mei-Hung – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
The rise of augmented reality hits the world of Information, Communication and Technology which brings about the booming phenomenon of mobile games. One of hot mobile game with the successful application of augmented reality is "Pokémon Go," issued in August 2016. The uses of augmented reality not only give the gamers a new kind…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Games
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Chen, Yan; Smith, Thomas J.; York, Cindy S.; Mayall, Hayley J. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the incorporation of Google Earth Virtual Reality (VR) into English Learners' (ELs) expository writing experiences from a Funds of Knowledge perspective utilizing a mixed-methods explanatory sequential design. The participants were 22 ELs from a middle school in a rural Midwestern town. During the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, English Language Learners