Virtual Reality

The application of virtual reality technology to foreign language teaching is still at the primary stage. In the immersive foreign language teaching practice, virtual reality teaching can provide students with vivid and lifelike learning environment and cultivate students' autonomous learning ability. The teacher is no longer the centre of teaching but the organizer, the guide and the participant of the entire teaching process. The students can take the initiative to acquire knowledge in the process of real experience. The preliminary research and investigation on application of virtual reality technology to immersive foreign language teaching described in the paper, through the trial with the students, has won sound feedback, enhanced the students' interest in learning foreign languages and achieved satisfactory teaching effect.



The teachers, carrying out the teaching and research works, are the most important and scarce teaching resources. The overall social education resources are limited and excellent education resources are scarce. There are also the imbalance of teaching resources between first-tier cities and second or third-tier cities, the economically developed coastal areas and the underdeveloped areas.
By using virtual reality technology, the excellent classroom teaching video can be saved for sharing such as the provincial or national quality curriculum. By adopting 3D streaming media technology, the online virtual remote education can be achieved, which will help to improve the teaching quality and learning effect of distance education. For the ripening of virtual reality technology and decrease of the cost of related equipment, the virtual reality technology has more opportunities to enter the classroom. The school can purchase virtual reality camera, shoot excellent teaching video and provide them to the remote users for real-time and space learning. At the same time, the preservation of teaching video can provide students the opportunities for after-school review, assist teachers to share their teaching experience, help various colleges and universities share teaching resources and alleviate the problem of the scarcity of high-quality educational resources in a certain degree.