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Virtual Reality for Language Learning

Web-VR application to immerse students in virtual reality situations in their target culture. Take a look at the demo in Spanish: https://vr4language.glitch.me/ 

360 videos for virtual immersion

In this demo in Spanish, advanced learners are immersed in a specific situation: a business lunch with a new supervisor and two co-workers. The learner's point of view is situated at a restaurant table where they are surrounded by people and the restaurant environment itself.

Interactivity with the immersive scenario

User can passively interact with the virtual enviroment by choosing from a set of pre-determined options. Depending on which option they choose a different video is displayed with the matching reaction from the people in the immersive video.

Instructional videos

Weekly videos produced at the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS), at the University of Oregon

Keep engaged

How to keep engaged with language learning during school breaks!

#Hashtags

How to decode hashtags in the wild to use the target language!

Memes

How to create memes in the target language and make everyone laugh!

Student-centered activities

A selection of weekly activities published in the Intercom Newsletter

CASLS Intercom: Why Learn a Language?
CASLS Intercom: ACTFL modes of communication
CASLS Intercom: Introduction to Multimodal Communication

The Holodeck project: immersive virtual tours for Spanish learners

Virtual tours in the classroom

Learners engaged in a virtual tour given at a lab set-up. They listen to recordings of people speaking Spanish, and they could enter the phisical spaced surrounded by the tour images and read extra information about each site.

Learners' creations

Learners were given the opportunity of creating and guiding their own tours. Here on the right a presentation before the tour of San Juan, Puerto Rico, started. Classmates were able to interact with the surroundings and ask questions.