LingoVerse : virtual language learning through gamification

Špruk, Nik Jan (author), Žnideršič, Klara (author), Marolt, Matija (author), Pesek, Matevž (author)

The paper explores the use of virtual reality (VR) games for enhancing motivation and effectiveness in foreign language learning through virtual environments. In addition to increasing students’ motivation to study a foreign language, it also aims to explore the use of the app as a complementary tool in formal educational settings. A VR language-learning game, LingoVerse, was developed and tested, with a focus on gamification mechanisms. An evaluation study that included pre- and post-test proficiency tests and user feedback, provides preliminary signals that the game may support language acquisition and motivation. We also consider the technical limitations of VR devices and discuss the challenges reported in interviews by individual users. The findings suggest that the LingoVerse game showed a potentially positive effect on conventional test performance and language learning outcomes, and that VR may be suitable as a supplementary tool for practice in both traditional language education and individual learning.

• Language: English
• Keywords: virtual reality, e-learning, language learning, virtual worlds
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: 24 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 29, iss. 4, article no. 174
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-176362
• UDC: 004.946:37.091.3
• ISSN on article: 1359-4338
• DOI: 10.1007/s10055-025-01250-w
• COBISS.SI-ID: 258082563
• Publication date in RUL: 28.11.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Virtual reality
• Shortened title: Virtual real.
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 1359-4338
• COBISS.SI-ID: 512039961

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: navidezna resničnost, e-učenje, učenje jezikov, navidezni svetovi

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Project number: C4350-24-927003
• Name: “TeachXR - Use of Extended Reality in Education”
• Acronym: Recovery and Resilience Facility