The 7th Future of English language Teaching Conference (FOELT) took place on Saturday, 11th June, 2022. The abstract of my talk There has been a lot of talk about the metaverse in the past year, and language teachers, teacher trainers…
Read part one on note-taking in virtual reality first. Writing (and also reading) is difficult in fully immersive virtual reality because the user is wearing a headset. While engineers are working on the technology and coming up with solutions, I…
Teresa Bestwick from The TEFL Development Hub kindly invited me to give a presentation as part of their Facebook Live Webinar series. I happily accepted because, being a language teacher myself, I like talking to teachers about emerging technologies, in…
Note-taking is good for learning (Friedman, n.d.). We learned how to do it at school and university, and we teach it to our students. In language lessons, teachers write up language and grammar they want to teach on the board,…
I had the opportunity to give a talk combining my favourite topics – language learning, the environment and EdTech at this year’s InnovateELT conference that took place 1–2 October. I was very happy when I saw that Emily Bryson not…
Billie Jago interviewed me for theDigital Series of her ELTcpd podcast. In this episode, we speak to EdTech professional and VR expert Nergiz Kern about using Virtual Reality in both the online and face-to-face classroom. We’ll be discussing the three…
Hybrid learning has become a popular teaching model–including at language schools–as a response to the COVID-19 restrictions in education. In this article, I will look at what it is and what the challenges are. Then I will suggest a new…
When things are going well, institutions are slow to change. Student numbers on EAP (English for Academic Purposes) pre-sessional courses in the UK have been increasing steadily over the past decade that I have been teaching EAP. So there was…
If you have not already, you can read part one of this article here. Learning through interaction in virtual reality requires careful pedagogical planning, not magic. Nergiz Kern In the previous blog post, we looked at why adding interaction to a…
Interaction of all sorts is pervasive in the physical world (Cai, Tay and Ngo, 2013), perhaps even central to our existence. We interact with other people, with other living beings, with objects, with information – we can even say that…