#VirtualRealityApp

Technology can help you improve yourself, and that includes your language skills! From language apps to language learning systems to innovative language learning tools, technology is changing language learning. Each new technological advance leads to new developments in language learning, and each technology offers different advantages. Some apps can help you memorize words. Software can guide you through a full language course in the comfort of your own home. Meanwhile, virtual reality, the latest player on the language learning scene, can help you practice your language skills like never before.

Motivation is the excitement of VR in ELT. Students need to be motivated to use and participate in VR. Many students many have had a VR experience prior to language learning, so that makes them more experts than we think. Students, especially those of young age are significantly attracted by these effects. Collaboration was the other aspect that I though was quite interesting.

Some practical ideas that VR can be used in the ELT classroom. These are:

1. A blended model that can be giving a presentation, giving feedback or practising public speaking. 

2. Introduce 360-degree videos (Google) and have students describe what they see, make it more experiential learning. 

3. Gap filling activities where two students can find out about an experience through exploration. 

4. A role play scenario, where one group of students can be acting as a guide to another team that is going to a place or experiencing something new.