Speaker: Jason Tacker
Date: Nov 18, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM
Abstract: This study, meant to add to the literature on virtual reality use in EFL education, examined the feasibility of using virtual reality in an L2 as a tool for positive transfer of skills from virtual reality to a real-world situation. We modeled our research on the methods of Michalski et al. (2019) in their work on the positive transfer of sports skills to practical application. We reinforced the method with ideas from Xie et al. (2021) in their research on common assessment tests and evaluations of positive transfer from virtual reality. Our method was mainly qualitative as it encompasses interpretivism, epistemological orientation, and constructionism as its main driving forces (Bryman, 2006). What we discovered was that the cooking skills taught in the L2 through virtual reality did transfer to a real-world situation. In the short-term, skills with detailed knowledge of the process were retained, while in the long-term, volunteers who were retested retained most of the processes of cooking from virtual reality.
