Virtual simulators application in the foreign language studying as the factor of students motivating

Rostov State Transport University, 2, Rostovskogo Strelkovogo Polka Narodnogo Opolchenia sq., Rostov-on-Don, 344038, Russia

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Abstract

Our research paper draws attention to the problem of exploiting of the Virtual Reality simulations in studying foreign languages and we also attempt to authenticate the positive impact of employing this technology in forming an educational motivation of the students. The urgency of the investigations was promoted by the utter spreading of the immersive technologies interwoven into all spheres of our daily life. The aforementioned factors arise the significance of changing the pedagogical paradigms and doctrines to be up-to-date with the things change. Our study detected that being a complex phenomenon motivation plays a significant role in the educational process; the experimental cohort comprised 64 first year students of the of the Humanities Department, of the Hotel Business and Tourism Business specialties of the Rostov State Transport University who were asked a list of questions connected with the motivational factors; we chose a “Field Trip” simulation as a learning tool for our experiment and then statistically validated the fact of educational motivation rise after the incorporating of the aforementioned technique into the procedure of the studying of a foreign language.