The language of situated joint activity: Social virtual reality and language learning in virtual exchange

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

Standard

The language of situated joint activity: Social virtual reality and language learning in virtual exchange. / Martin, Gillian; O'Rourke, Breffni; Werner, Sina.
Virtual Reality in den Geisteswissenschaften: Konzepte, Methoden und interkulturelle Anwendungen. ed. / Karsten Senkbeil; Timo Ahlers. Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 2024. p. 81-106 (Hildesheimer Schriften zur Interkulturellen Kommunikation; Vol. 12).

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

Harvard

Martin, G, O'Rourke, B & Werner, S 2024, The language of situated joint activity: Social virtual reality and language learning in virtual exchange. in K Senkbeil & T Ahlers (eds), Virtual Reality in den Geisteswissenschaften: Konzepte, Methoden und interkulturelle Anwendungen. Hildesheimer Schriften zur Interkulturellen Kommunikation, vol. 12, Peter Lang Verlag, Berlin, pp. 81-106. https://doi.org/10.3726/b22222

APA

Martin, G., O'Rourke, B., & Werner, S. (2024). The language of situated joint activity: Social virtual reality and language learning in virtual exchange. In K. Senkbeil, & T. Ahlers (Eds.), Virtual Reality in den Geisteswissenschaften: Konzepte, Methoden und interkulturelle Anwendungen (pp. 81-106). (Hildesheimer Schriften zur Interkulturellen Kommunikation; Vol. 12). Peter Lang Verlag. https://doi.org/10.3726/b22222

Vancouver

Martin G, O'Rourke B, Werner S. The language of situated joint activity: Social virtual reality and language learning in virtual exchange. In Senkbeil K, Ahlers T, editors, Virtual Reality in den Geisteswissenschaften: Konzepte, Methoden und interkulturelle Anwendungen. Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag. 2024. p. 81-106. (Hildesheimer Schriften zur Interkulturellen Kommunikation). doi: 10.3726/b22222

Bibtex

@inbook{c98014df9bca49a7b4a81deb283612c1,
title = "The language of situated joint activity: Social virtual reality and language learning in virtual exchange",
abstract = "We argue that tasks with a physical and spatial character undertaken in socialvirtual reality environments can elicit the use of language in the situated mode, and that this type of language is relatively neglected in the typical communicative language classroom.We report on a study of an escape-room style task implemented as part of a virtual exchange programme between Trinity College Dublin and the University of Hildesheim. We propose and illustrate a taxonomy of functions of situated language which occur in recorded interactions among student teams split between the partner sites.",
keywords = "Didactics of English as a foreign language, intercultural learning, immersive VR, virtual exchange, online collaboration, online language learning, task-based language learning and teaching",
author = "Gillian Martin and Breffni O'Rourke and Sina Werner",
year = "2024",
month = oct,
day = "21",
doi = "10.3726/b22222",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-631-89605-1",
series = "Hildesheimer Schriften zur Interkulturellen Kommunikation",
publisher = "Peter Lang Verlag",
pages = "81--106",
editor = "Karsten Senkbeil and Timo Ahlers",
booktitle = "Virtual Reality in den Geisteswissenschaften",
address = "Germany",

}

RIS

TY - CHAP

T1 - The language of situated joint activity: Social virtual reality and language learning in virtual exchange

AU - Martin, Gillian

AU - O'Rourke, Breffni

AU - Werner, Sina

PY - 2024/10/21

Y1 - 2024/10/21

N2 - We argue that tasks with a physical and spatial character undertaken in socialvirtual reality environments can elicit the use of language in the situated mode, and that this type of language is relatively neglected in the typical communicative language classroom.We report on a study of an escape-room style task implemented as part of a virtual exchange programme between Trinity College Dublin and the University of Hildesheim. We propose and illustrate a taxonomy of functions of situated language which occur in recorded interactions among student teams split between the partner sites.

AB - We argue that tasks with a physical and spatial character undertaken in socialvirtual reality environments can elicit the use of language in the situated mode, and that this type of language is relatively neglected in the typical communicative language classroom.We report on a study of an escape-room style task implemented as part of a virtual exchange programme between Trinity College Dublin and the University of Hildesheim. We propose and illustrate a taxonomy of functions of situated language which occur in recorded interactions among student teams split between the partner sites.

KW - Didactics of English as a foreign language

KW - intercultural learning

KW - immersive VR

KW - virtual exchange

KW - online collaboration

KW - online language learning

KW - task-based language learning and teaching

UR - https://d-nb.info/1343855101

U2 - 10.3726/b22222

DO - 10.3726/b22222

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-3-631-89605-1

T3 - Hildesheimer Schriften zur Interkulturellen Kommunikation

SP - 81

EP - 106

BT - Virtual Reality in den Geisteswissenschaften

A2 - Senkbeil, Karsten

A2 - Ahlers, Timo

PB - Peter Lang Verlag

CY - Berlin

ER -

DOI

Recently viewed

Researchers

  1. John Julius

Publications

  1. »CO2 causes a hole in the atmosphere« Using laypeople’s conceptions as a starting point to communicate climate change
  2. Communicating CCS
  3. Commitment Strategies for Sustainability
  4. Learning through evaluation
  5. Sensing the room
  6. To Fail or Not to Fail
  7. How many Persistent Organic Pollutants should we expect?
  8. Environmental rebound effect of energy efficiency improvements in Colombian households
  9. Paar normal oder paranormal
  10. Sprechwerkstatt in der Schule
  11. Multimodality
  12. How does collaborative governance evolve?
  13. Group evaluations as self-group distancing
  14. Preface (Editorial)
  15. Towards a Real-world Laboratory
  16. Guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia
  17. Effectiveness and Moderators of an Internet-Based Mobile-Supported Stress Management Intervention as a Universal Prevention Approach
  18. Hidden Value
  19. Evidence-based Entrepreneurship (EBE): A systematic approach to cumulative science
  20. Prediction of improvement in quality of life (QoL-AGHDA) in adults with growth hormone deficiency by normative reference limits: data of the German KIMS cohort
  21. Leere untern Tannenbaum
  22. Scientists’ Responsibility for Global Futures
  23. Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
  24. Das Bild im Monitor
  25. Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics
  26. Ronald F. Inglehart
  27. Exports and Firm Characteristics in Germany: A Survey of Empirical Studies (1991 to 2011)
  28. A leverage points perspective on Arctic Indigenous food systems research

Press / Media

  1. Mehr als nur Duchschnitt