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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Ahlers, Timo"

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Foreign Language Tandem Learning in Social VR - Conception, Implementation and Evaluation of the Game-Based Application Hololingo!
    (i-com: Vol. 21, No. 1, 2022) Ahlers, Timo; Bumann, Cassandra; Kölle, Ralph; Lazović, Milica
    Hololingo! is a social virtual reality app for real-time immersive distance learning of German as a Foreign Language (GFL). The acquisition of discoursive oral language skills for applied authentic contexts is challenging for group-based classroom settings and is often outsourced to autonomous analogue tandem learning. We operationalise a Digital Game-Based Language Learning (DGBLL) approach for distance learning, which relieves tandems from overstraining autonomy and self-guidance. Hololingo! supports tandems in their learning activities by providing entertaining communicative, collaborative, and didactically designed team tasks. These are embedded in a narrative adventure, target linguistic phenomena, and support the holistic acquisition of oral discourse competencies and fluency. The combination of the tandem principle, immersive Social VR gamification, barrier-free access to a global pool of expert/native speakers, and a curricular connection through task selection facilitates language learning and provides transcultural contacts. App development follows a Design-Based-Research cycle of conception, implementation, and evaluation. The results of a qualitative discourse analysis of the learning interaction are discussed with regard to tandem role behaviour, the relation between task design and communication as well as affective and creative behaviour.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Hololingo! - A Game-Based Social Virtual Reality Application for Foreign Language Tandem Learning
    (DELFI 2021, 2021) Ahlers, Timo; Bumann, Cassandra; Kölle, Ralph; Lazović, Milica
    Hololingo! is a Social Virtual Reality tandem app for real-time immersive distance learn-ing of German as a Foreign Language (GFL). The acquisition of discoursive oral language skills for applied authentic contexts is challenging for group-based classroom settings and is often outsourced to autonomous analogue tandem learning. We operationalise a Digital Game-Based Language Learning (DGBLL) approach for distance-learning which also relieves tandems from overstraining autonomy and self-guidance. Hololingo! supports tandems in their learning activities by providing entertaining communicative, collaborative, and didactically designed team tasks. These are embed-ded in a narrative adventure, target linguistic phenomena, and support the holistic acquisition of oral-discourse competencies and fluency. The combination of the tandem principle, immersive So-cial VR gamification, barrier-free access to a global pool of expert/native speakers, and a curricular connection through task selection facilitates language learning and provides transcultural contacts. App development follows a Design-Based-Research cycle of conception, implementation, and eval-uation.