The Application of Virtual Reality to Foreign Vocabulary Learning Making Use of the Loci Method.
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the potential for virtual reality-based enhancement of the mnemonic method of loci to yield improvements in performance in the learning of Swedish vocabulary. Groups of 15 participants were given a set of concrete nouns in the Swedish language along with their...
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University of Canterbury. Psychology
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1942 |
| Summary: | An experiment was conducted to evaluate the potential for virtual reality-based enhancement of
the mnemonic method of loci to yield improvements in performance in the learning of Swedish
vocabulary. Groups of 15 participants were given a set of concrete nouns in the Swedish
language along with their English translations. They were asked to learn both the gender of the
Swedish words and their English translations, using one of four variants of the loci mnemonic.
These variants comprised the presence or absence of a virtual environment and the prior
grouping of the words into semantically related categories. The manipulation of virtuality did not
provide statistically significant results, although the trends were in the direction of enhanced
learning in the virtual environment. The manipulation of prior grouping into semantically related
categories yielded statistically stronger effects than the manipulation of virtuality. The
implications for future research using virtual-reality-based enhancements of the method of loci
are discussed. |
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