Jack Ratcliffe's Research

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Spoken dialogue-systems (goal-orientated) for language learning

• Guo (2017), SeLL: Second Language Learning Paired with VR and AI
• Ayedoun (2018), Adding Communicative and Affective Strategies to an Embodied Conversational Agent to Enhance Second Language Learners’ Willingness to Communicate
• Divekar (2018), Interaction Challenges in AI Equipped Environments Built to Teach Foreign Languages Through Dialogue and Task-Completion

Virtual reality + context for language learning

• Dylan Ebert (2016), Ogma – A Virtual Reality Language Acquisition System

Interactive 360 Video + context for language learning

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Literature

State of SDS CALL

* Bibauw (2018), Discussing with a computer to practice a foreign language: from a conceptual framework to a research agenda for dialogue-based CALL

SLA benefits of SDS

* Bibauw , Van Den Noortgate, François (2018), Insights from a multilevel meta-analysis on the effectiveness of dialogue-based CALL

SLA benefits of immersion

• Blyth (2017), Immersive technologies and language learning
• Alan Cheng (2017), Teaching Language and Culture with a Virtual Reality Game
• Lloyd (2017), Imagining the potential for using virtual reality technologies in language learning
• Klaus Schwienhorst (2002), Why Virtual, Why Environments? Implementing Virtual Reality Concepts in Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• Douglas Canfield (1998), The Discursive Construction of Language Teaching and Learning in Multiuser Virtual Environments
• Situational Language Teaching in Ubiquitous Learning Environments (2010)
• A study of user's acceptance on situational mashups in situational language teaching (2012)

CogSci grounding of immersion for learning

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422600/
• http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.677.7955&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/g4h.2018.0008?casa_token=NG7Z3R-BUEkAAAAA:onjjx9bLECWfSJiK-_AsJBrgNkarrZgcP1mam1fLQcnIM4F6T58Ag-ar-0G_H9vK2o8XaMI402Y

CofSci grounding of immersion for anxiety reduction

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401534/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670421/
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Grillon/publication/46639365_Context_conditioning_in_a_virtual_environment_potentiates_startle/links/5616662108ae2467f68638c1.pdf
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mel_Slater/publication/12017692_An_experiment_on_fear_of_public_speaking_in_virtual_reality/links/00b495219d7573d4fa000000.pdf
• https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bfb1/012c4a26ace569a4a43fb17aa2d656ce4a16.pdf

CofSci grounding of immersion for motivation and valance

• https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/33103/Tokarchuk%20Effects%20of%20Valence%202018%20Accepted.pdf?sequence=1
• http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/000841740507200107?casa_token=nMR5e75QCZYAAAAA:oXsWW5vhy0qNPMQrW9reQdkZKEMSs2MO1RymHQ5iwPrmYLxZKVhwskB44Ce5hlURHTYXUTuYVkt2
• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-91584-5_8
• https://riunet.upv.es/bitstream/handle/10251/63762/ARCHIVES-PMR-D-14-00813R2_author.pdf?sequence=3
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura_Freina/publication/280566372_A_Literature_Review_on_Immersive_Virtual_Reality_in_Education_State_Of_The_Art_and_Perspectives/links/55ba24b208ae9289a0926382.pdf
• https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01530726/
• http://3wayne3050.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/94442417/Computers%20and%20Education.pdf

SLA grounding of SDS + immersion

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Choosing an automatic-speech-recognition platform

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Designing a dialogue manager

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Designing an immersive environment

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Syllabus design

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Measuring language learning

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Teaching Japanese-as-a-foreign-language

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General SAL

• Teacher Development in a Global Profession: An Autoethnograph
• Dorothy Chun (2014), Second Language Acquisition
• Schreiber, The Oral Approach to Language Learning (1949)

SLA + Context for better learning

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3588719.pdf?casa_token=7HvHu7c0TS8AAAAA:TeG5hZJCGmAPCH9qnypFMWkZFx8QS9n7j-Vsnr-WwuectKRxUYDshMIdIGvLQclhYnkirA9hGADPVz9LlqdQUDaG2S-YE_Ks2rdrV_-oVJkht5-ixGo
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/328469.pdf?casa_token=PbOIjj8i2C8AAAAA:I6lcJCxyVEwGkC68PgkKxndoIMO5isxSPe-0Bc4k4VzgSy3GUppY_4tA1FzRSuWYZ6cBzIhVE2MaUW5tvSNA7y7FdXE_kaMrbMSm_5uJlgpsDGr8g5I
• http://doc.rero.ch/record/305092/files/ann_slp.pdf
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44486767.pdf?casa_token=FTB2bHaBeYkAAAAA:PXPLjrlpEie3LuaHdV27SIBsLNIYM7Syr_nWDXe-j32sf84LNBxmYheY3AqFcqXTopzGtr7IuuyxYzZizrs2Q2wosk6KCrb8wbYRtQHPfHd2swlRAa4
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1944-9720.1995.tb00828.x
• Interactional routines as a mechanism for L2 acquisition and socialization in an immersion context

SLA + Anxiety concerns

• http://faculty.capebretonu.ca/pmacintyre/research_pages/journals/motivation_chapter_2002.pdf
• http://faculty.capebretonu.ca/pmacintyre/research_pages/journals/subtle_anxiety1994.pdf
• http://www.academia.edu/download/30521133/anxiety_and_l2_1989.pdf
• https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/98e1/6ff039c834650fa255ee22268ed655e91791.pdf

SLA + Motivation benefits

• https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED031968.pdf
• https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED031968.pdf
• https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=7MELVJorM6AC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=second+language+acquisition+motivation&ots=4H5XHkmdFX&sig=vkQMXECbeTcrR1DpE1sm6BjOY7g
• http://digibug.ugr.es/bitstream/handle/10481/31616/Gardner.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Clement2/publication/216308568_Motivational_variables_in_second_language_acquisition_A_study_of_Francophones_learning_English/links/567401dd08aee7a42745a575.pdf

Books

Second Language Acquistion

• Theories in Second Language Acquisition
• Jack Richards, Theodore Rodgers (2014), Approaches and methods in language teaching
• Zoltan Dornyei, Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self
• Jack Richards (2014), Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

Commercial Implementations

There are many commercial deployments of attempts to use virtual or augmented reality to aid second-language acquisition:

• ImmerseMe (VR)
  • Interactive 360 video
  • Goal-orientated
  • Spoken interaction
  • Explicitly constrainer: written instruction
• Mondly: Learn Languages in VR (VR)
  • VR HMD
  • Goal-orientated
  • Spoken interaction (explicitly constrained)
  • Explicitly constrainer: written instruction

Articles

• https://qz.com/1159167/learning-a-language-in-vr-is-less-embarrassing-than-irl/
• https://www.inc.com/joseph-steinberg/the-new-way-to-learn-languages-virtual-reality_1.html
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-language-learning-augmented-reality-vs-virtual-denis-hurley/