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English Language Education

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  5. English and American Studies
  6. English Language Education
  7. Research
  8. VR and ESD in ELT

VR and ESD in ELT

As part of the BMBF competence network lernen:digital, this sub-project aims to develop research-based teacher training modules on virtual reality (VR) and ESD in ELT.

Persons

Project management: Prof. Dr. Theresa Summer

Research assistants: Michelle Zirkel and Claudia Schnellbögl

Student assistant: Michelle Zeitler

Cooperation

Subprojects

  • Foreign language teaching (University of Bremen: Prof. Dr. Andreas Grünewald & Leona Droste, University of Würzburg Prof. Dr. Maria Eisenmann & Jeanine Steinbock)
  • Evaluation team 
  • digi4all 

Software company

AR2VR

 

Information

Duration: 06/2023-12/2025

Funding: European Union (NextGenerationEU), BMBF

Competence network:  

lernen:digital 

DiSo-SGW 

Critical friends

The following people provide critical feedback on the concept and content:

Dr. Martina Bredenbröcker (ALP Dillingen)

Martin Fritze (Head of English at Abensberg secondary school)

Prof. Dr. Regina Kaplan-Rakowski (University of North Texas)

Dr. Ricardo Römhild: (Post-Doc at the University of Münster)

Melissa Schneider (ALP Dillingen)

Training

Target group: English teachers from all types of schools (secondary I, secondary II, vocational schools)

Format: Blended learning (1 kick-off online, 2 in-person sessions in Bamberg)

Start: September 2024


Further information can be found here 

Publications

Zirkel, M. & Summer, T. (2024). Empowering English Language Teachers to Use Immersive Virtual Reality for Global Citizenship Education. WorldCALL2023: Official Conference Proceedings. Nagoya, Japan: The International Academic Forum. 217-224. DOI: 10.22492 

Insights

Project team learning:digital of English Language Education in Bamberg (from left to right: Michelle Zirkel, Prof. Dr. Theresa Summer, Claudia Schnellbögl)

Meeting with critical friends at the University of Bamber on 19 June 2024 (from left to right: Claudia Schnellbögl, Michelle Zirkel, Martin Fritze, Melissa Schneider, Martina Bredenbröcker, Theresa Summer)

Kick-off of the DiSo-SGW project at the University of Bamberg from 25 - 26 October 2023 (from left to right: Maria Eisenmann, Andreas Grünewald, Leona Droste, Claudia Schnellbögl, Theresa Summer)