Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Language Learning
The need for attention
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2024
162 pages
978-90-272-4685-1 (ISBN)
Description
It is intriguing and challenging to learn a language by diving into the worlds of Virtual Reality (3-D environments, avatars, games) and Artificial Intelligence (chatbots, agents). What are the issues and benefits of these technological innovations? Taking readers on a journey through the brain, this book explains how VR and AI may foster and sustain connectivity between language faculties, the senses/emotions, working and long-term memory, and attention. With the speed of technological innovation increasing, cognitive demand as well as aspects of intrinsic motivation are analyzed, charted, and discussed, as these may become essential for future development of language learning experiences. This volume should be of interest to instructors, researchers, and students of languages and linguistics, cognitive psychology, and computer science.
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Author's biography
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The language web
- The perisylvian cortex
- Broca's area
- Rehearsal process
- The perisylvian cortex and attention
- The limbic system
- Thalamus
- Limbic system and attention
- The neurophysiological side
- Neurotransmitters
- Phases of development
- Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence
- Chapter 3 The need for attention
- Working memory
- Binding
- Competition between verbal / non-verbal information
- Role of long-term memory
- Inhibition
- Interference
- Development
- Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence
- Chapter 4 Second language learning
- Motivation
- Task-design
- Technology
- Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence
- Chapter 5 The case of AI and Virtual Reality
- Artificial Intelligence
- Challenge
- Individuality
- Speech recognition
- Affective factors
- Virtual Reality
- Control
- Path
- Games
- Study
- The VR environment
- The set-up
- Participants
- Research questions and data collection
- Results
- Analysis topic 1
- Analysis topic 2
- Future studies
- Chapter 6 Learning and teaching
- Challenges Virtual Reality
- Challenges AI chatbots
- Pedagogical considerations
- The near future
- References
- Index
