Integrating augmented reality in language learning: pre-service teachers' digital competence and attitudes through the TPACK framework.

ABSTRACT: Although the use of Augmented Reality (AR) in language learning has increased over the last two decades, there is still little research on the preparation of pre-service teachers as AR content creators. This paper focuses on analyzing the digital competence and attitudes of teacher candidates to integrate AR in the foreign language classroom. For this purpose, eighty-five college students were assigned into different teams to create their own AR-based projects which aimed at teaching English and content to young learners. The teacher candidates employed several software development kits (SDKs) to construct collaborative AR projects in a five-week period, including discursive and illustrative representations of the learning content. In this research based on a mixed method, quantitative and

SUBMITTER: Belda-Medina J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9136798 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature