Is game-based language learning general or specific-oriented? Exploring the applicability of mobile virtual realities to medical English education in the middle east

IF 8.9 1区教育学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Computers & Education Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI:10.1016/j.compedu.2024.105013

Ali Derakhshan , Timothy Teo , Saeed Khazaie

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Abstract

Although Virtual Reality with simulation and 360-video scenes has been recognized as an educational game for improving general English communication in daily life, scant attention has been paid to specific language needs in applying the game to English programs of post-secondary education. Even less emphasis has been devoted to the applicability of multi-touch mobile Virtual Reality to general English and English for Medical and Academic Purposes education to support students in addressing their language needs in academia and the medical fields. This quasi-experimental study, through a parallel design, employed different treatments to explore the applicability of mobile Virtual Reality to learning general English and English for Medical and Academic Purposes productive skills. In 16-week English courses in a Middle Eastern medical university, 235 five-member cadres of students were semi-randomly assigned to two control and experimental groups to learn medical English speaking and writing through online tasks or mobile Virtual Realities. The findings indicated that the simulated three-dimensional environment of mobile Virtual Reality is a robust communication vehicle for learning English for Medical and Academic Purposes. However, non-concrete features of daily life related to general English productive skills were underrepresented in multi-touch stages of online tasks and mobile Virtual Realities. The future scope of the research in Virtual Reality-based language learning is elaborated.

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基于游戏的语言学习是通用型还是特殊型？探索移动虚拟现实在中东医学英语教育中的适用性

尽管具有模拟和 360 视频场景的虚拟现实技术已被公认为是提高日常生活中一般英语交流能力的教育游戏，但在将该游戏应用于中学后教育的英语课程时，却很少关注具体的语言需求。至于将多点触控移动虚拟现实技术应用于普通英语和医学及学术英语教育，以帮助学生解决学术和医学领域的语言需求，这方面的关注就更少了。这项准实验研究通过平行设计，采用不同的处理方法来探索移动虚拟现实技术在学习通用英语和医学与学术英语生产技能方面的适用性。在中东某医科大学为期 16 周的英语课程中，235 名五人学生骨干被半随机分配到两个对照组和实验组，通过在线任务或移动虚拟现实学习医学英语口语和写作。研究结果表明，移动虚拟现实的模拟三维环境是学习医学英语和学术英语的有力交流载体。然而，在在线任务和移动虚拟现实的多点触控阶段，与一般英语生产技能相关的日常生活非具体特征体现不足。本文阐述了基于虚拟现实的语言学习的未来研究范围。

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Computers & Education 工程技术-计算机：跨学科应用

CiteScore

27.10

自引率

5.80%

发文量

204

审稿时长

42 days

期刊介绍： Computers & Education seeks to advance understanding of how digital technology can improve education by publishing high-quality research that expands both theory and practice. The journal welcomes research papers exploring the pedagogical applications of digital technology, with a focus broad enough to appeal to the wider education community.