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Title:
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VIRTUAL REALITY IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH: A CASE ON AMAZON SUMERIAN |
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Author(s):
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Ana Maria Vieira Monteiro and Thies Pfeiffer |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-98-2 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers, Adriana Backx Noronha Viana, Tomayess Issa and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2020 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Virtual Reality, Second Language Acquisition, Vocabulary, WebXR, Amazon Sumerian |
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Type:
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Reflection |
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First Page:
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125 |
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Last Page:
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128 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Virtual reality (VR) has gained increasing academic attention in recent years, and a possible reason for that might be its
spread-out applications across different sectors of life. From the advent of the WebVR 1.0 API (application program
interface), released in 2016, it has become easier for developers, without extensive knowledge of programming and
modeling of 3D objects, to build and host applications that can be accessed anywhere by a minimum setup of devices. The
development of WebVR, now continued as WebXR, is, therefore, especially relevant for research on education and teaching
since experiments in VR had required not only expertise in the computer science domain but were also dependent on
state-of-the-art hardware, which could have been limiting aspects to researchers and teachers. This paper presents the result
of a project conducted at CITEC (Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology), Bielefeld University, Germany,
which intended to teach English for a specific purpose in a VR environment using Amazon Sumerian, a web-based service.
Contributions and limitations of this project are also discussed.
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