TY  - CPAPER
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Vieira Monteiro, Ana Maria
A1  - Pfeiffer, Thies Pfeiffer
T1  - VIRTUAL REALITY IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH: A CASE ON AMAZON SUMERIAN
T2  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2020, 05.02.-07.02.2020, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
N2  - 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.
KW  - Virtual Reality
KW  - Second Language Acquisition
KW  - WebXR
KW  - Amazon Sumerian
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 9789898533982
SB  - 9789898533982
U6  - https://doi.org/10.33965/icedutech2020
DO  - https://doi.org/10.33965/icedutech2020
SP  - 125
EP  - 128
S1  - 4
ER  -