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Augmented Reality for Enhancing Linguistic Skills of International Students in Preschool Education

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Novel & Intelligent Digital Systems: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference (NiDS 2023) (NiDS 2023)

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The utilization of new technologies in education is essential for providing an effective and of high quality learning environment. The preschool education is considered quite demanding, especially with the increasing number of multilingual and multi-ethnic families in European countries. This fact leads to constantly find new teaching methods and ways of learning that deviate from traditional ones, in order to promote the active learning and innovative teaching. As such, this study presents the development of an Augmented Reality (AR) application, using the Quiver tool, to enrich vocabulary acquisition of international students who attend Greek Kindergartens and are taught Greek as a second / foreign language. For the needs of this study, qualitative research method – and specifically, case study and observation – was used to investigate the impact of the developed AR application in oral communication of foreign preschool students. The results show that the use of AR has a positive impact in vocabulary and linguistic skills acquisition, fluency in oral communication, motivation, commitment to the learning process and satisfaction.

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  1. Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of West Attica, Egaleo, Greece

    Andrianthi Kapetanaki, Akrivi Krouska, Christos Troussas, Stavroula Drosou & Cleo Sgouropoulou

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  1. Department of Environment, Ionian University, Zakynthos, Greece

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  2. Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of West Attica, Egaleo, Greece

    Phivos Mylonas

  3. College of Engineering, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines

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Kapetanaki, A., Krouska, A., Troussas, C., Drosou, S., Sgouropoulou, C. (2023). Augmented Reality for Enhancing Linguistic Skills of International Students in Preschool Education. In: Kabassi, K., Mylonas, P., Caro, J. (eds) Novel & Intelligent Digital Systems: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference (NiDS 2023). NiDS 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 783. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44097-7_26

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