How can we use virtual reality to teach English?
British Council - Teaching English
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The headset can be used for listening and traditional lessons. But it seems an unnecessary addition to make students sit there for 20 minutes doing a listening in VR when they could do that on a computer screen and wearing a heavy headset at the same time. So you really want to take advantage of the situational aspects of this, where there is, you know, putting them on airplanes because you can go into the airplanes themselves here. The fact that they're hidden behind an avatar, the fact that they's not looking at each other's faces, there's not that kind of fear of perhaps making a mistake that you would have in a classroom context.
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