VR Piazza italiana: Learning Language and Culture Through Presence and Embodiment
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Piazza Italiana is a VR environment and interactive Italian built on Mozilla Hubs and meant to be integrated into the curriculum of a second-semester language class. Our Experience takes you "inside" a Beginner's Italian textbook chapter dedicated to food and shops. The environment is designed on the model of a typical Italian piazza, a center of town where people shop, visit coffeehouses and restaurants, walk, and congregate. Within this VR piazza we plan to showcase three different immersive spaces -- an ice-cream shop (gelateria); a grocery shop (alimentari); and a pasta shop (pastificio) where the visitors will be able to perform sequences of task-based activities that engage immersive to improve and better retain their learning of Italian. We want to show how VR's provision of simulated realities engages students to learn and adapt to a language by interacting with and deriving meaning from it, as they use an infinite range of virtually recreated real-life contexts to support the way they develop their speaking and listening skills.
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