Towards Figurative Expression Enhancement: Effects of the SVVR-Supported Worked Example Approach on the Descriptive Writing of Highly Engaged Students

Yi-Pin Huang,Jun Lei,Gang Yang,Chuang-Kai Chiu,Feng Wang,Xiao-Li Zheng,Hoisoo Kim

doi:10.3390/su132112260

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https://doi.org/10.3390/su132112260

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Nov 6, 2021
Citations: 7	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Wenzhou University, Chonnam National University

Abstract

During the past decades, many researchers have attempted to explore effective teaching methods for developing students’ descriptive writing performance. In this study, the worked example was implemented as an effective way of guiding students to provide step-by-step solutions to learning tasks. Moreover, a spherical video-based virtual reality (SVVR) environment was provided to place students in real-world situations which enabled them to experience the learning contexts in depth. A pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted to explore the influence of the SVVR-supported worked example approach and engagement level on students’ Chinese descriptive writing performance. A total of 79 fourth-grade elementary school students participated in this study. The experimental group used SVVR with worked examples to complete Chinese writing assignments, whereas the control group used videos and worked examples. The results showed no significant effects of the SVVR-supported worked example approach compared with the conventional worked example approach regarding organization, sensory details, or creativity dimensions. As for the figurative expression dimension, students in the SVVR-supported worked example approach condition scored significantly higher. Moreover, high engagement students significantly outperformed low engagement students in all four writing performance dimensions. Additionally, a significant interaction effect between learning approach and engagement level on figurative expression was found.

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With more than 6000 languages spoken around the world, language education is a way to break down linguistic and cultural boundaries in order to achieve a unified education for sustainable development [1,2]
The findings revealed that field independent (FI) learners gained more with the ISVVR learning approach regarding oral presentation than the field dependent (FD) learners
The students who learned with the spherical video-based virtual reality (SVVR)-supported worked example approach will significantly outperform those who learned with the conventional worked example approach on descriptive writing performance

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With more than 6000 languages spoken around the world, language education is a way to break down linguistic and cultural boundaries in order to achieve a unified education for sustainable development [1,2]. Sustainable development of individuals or society is likely to be unattainable without language education. It is acknowledged that native language learning precedes foreign language learning. The native language affects foreign language acquisition. The acquisition of the native language is paramount. Language learning includes listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Among these, writing is an essential productive activity for students because they use acquired language from class to write particular words for enunciating their emotions and viewpoints in order to achieve communicative goals [3,4]

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