AR4EFL
Transforming Primary School Students’ English As A Foreign Language Learning (EFL) With Augmented Reality (AR)
For teachers, the COVID-19 Pandemic has become a great challenge, for which no preconfigured playbook can guide appropriate responses. The crisis has, among other things, demonstrated the complexity of keeping young primary school students attentive to the online explanations of teachers, which is one of the main problems that teachers have encountered in their improvised online classes, as maintaining attention and motivation can be even more challenging when using new methodologies for blended, and distance learning, as the COVID19 breakout dictates.
Additionally, when it comes to second language teaching the obstacles might be even greater, as language acquisition in all its contexts, and especially in second language acquisition, is a complex process that can only become effective if the appropriate methods for total immersion of students in the natural language environment are created. The learning process that we typically find in the classroom, either that is based on traditional translation-based methods or more interactive everyday dialogues and material, still cannot be compared to the real experience that students can have nowadays with the use of technology.
Project Objectives
With this project, we aim to train school teachers to use AR when teaching English as a foreign language to young students, who are also the final beneficiaries of the project.
Objectives
• To create a realistic learning environment for learners of a second language so as to motivate them to learn
• Design, test and publish an innovative educational package based on AR technology for primary school teachers that will guide and support their English (or any other) as second language teaching
• To provide quality training to primary school teachers on how to utilise the innovative educational package in traditional or virtual/online classroom.
| Organization Name | Country |
|---|---|
| EUROSPEAK LANGUAGE SCHOOLS LTD | United Kingdom |
| STANDO LTD | Cyprus |
| MPIRMPAKOS D. & SIA O.E. | Greece |
| ASSOCIACIÓ EDUCATIVA I CULTURAL BLUE BEEHIVE | Spain |
| LEARNMERA OY | Finland |
| CONLAN SCHOOL LIMITED | United Kingdom |
Disclaimer: This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained here.
