Overview
- Theorizes and re-conceptualizes contextual language learning based on the research and development work
- Discusses theorizations of technology enhanced language learning, as well as many developments in virtual reality and augmented reality
- Edited by two pioneers of research in the field of virtual reality for Chinese learning and teaching
Part of the book series: Chinese Language Learning Sciences (CLLS)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Scott Grant is a lecturer in the Chinese Studies Program at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating with an economics degree in the early 1980s, Scott spent 10 years living, studying, and working in mainland China. Married in China in the late 80s, Scott and his spouse have prioritized the speaking of Mandarin at home for the last three decades. As a result, their two daughters who have grown up in Australia (although one was born in China and both visit China regularly) both speak fluent Mandarin. Combined with his own experiences over the decades as a foreign learner and user of Mandarin in work and daily life, this has given Scott unique insights into the learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language. During more than 20 years of teaching Chinese language and culture at tertiary level, Scott has jointly published over twenty papers and chapters related to learning in 3D virtual environments. He is also the creator of Chinese Island, an approach to learning and practicing Chinese language and culture that utilizes a simulated Chinese township with multiple venues & scenarios in a 3D multiuser virtual environment in combination with a conventional LMS to provide task-based and situated learning opportunities for learners of Chinese in tertiary foreign language classrooms. As part of this highly interactive learning environment, Scott has also developed a series of programmed AI virtual characters that interact with learners both conversationally and transactionally as students complete the set tasks. Scott’s current research interests include the use of immersive VR, AI and speech recognition for foreign language learning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contextual Language Learning
Book Subtitle: Real Language Learning on the Continuum from Virtuality to Reality
Editors: Yu-Ju Lan, Scott Grant
Series Title: Chinese Language Learning Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3416-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3415-4Published: 01 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3418-5Published: 02 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3416-1Published: 31 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2520-1719
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1727
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 202
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Educational Technology, Language Teaching, Language Education, Technology and Digital Education