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French language learners increased their vocabulary scores by 69% after just one session in IMMERSE.

Students learned and remembered the vocabulary words regardless of whether they accessed IMMERSE via a computer or VR headset, showing that both modalities help students learn vocabulary effectively.

Teachers positively evaluated IMMERSE for both teaching and learning, recognizing its ability to enhance engagement, lesson interactivity, and immersive experiences, despite the learning curve.

Preservice teachers successfully utilized IMMERSE to design EFL lessons that incorporated presence and agency, including interactive role-play, social interactions, and multimodal communication.

The study identified a significant gap between pre-service and in-service teachers' performance in integrating immersive virtual reality (iVR) into teaching, attributing differences to variations in pedagogical knowledge and teaching confidence rather than technological proficiency.

Teachers' pedagogical knowledge and confidence in teaching, rather than just technological knowledge, significantly influenced effective technology integration in language education.

IMMERSE facilitated mediation strategies that helped students collaborate, negotiate meaning, and co-construct language while engaging in digital storytelling and reading activities.

IMMERSE enabled students to interact in realistic virtual environments, enhancing their engagement and ability to apply mediation strategies in social and professional contexts.

Learners who used high-immersion VR (headsets) participated more consistently and engaged more actively in lessons compared to those using low-immersion VR (desktop computers), with headset users demonstrating greater language production.

IMMERSE helped learners develop practical language skills and cultural competence in ways not easily replicated in traditional classrooms.

Using IMMERSE led to increased learner engagement and improved language use and communication skills.​

IMMERSE effectively simulated authentic contexts, providing learners with practical, task-based language practice that closely mirrors real-life situations.

The interactive nature of the IMMERSE platform significantly increased student engagement during language practice sessions.

Students appreciated the flexibility of practicing English at their own pace using IMMERSE's AI conversation partners.

IMMERSE helped students improve their mediation strategies by facilitating peer interactions through verbal and non-verbal communication, meaning-making, and teamwork management.

Students engaged in IMMERSE for 12 hours across multiple sessions, and the interactive nature of the platform supported goal-oriented collaboration, enhancing their ability to negotiate meaning and structure discussions.

ESL students experienced a 31% reduction in foreign language anxiety after just four lessons in IMMERSE.

IMMERSE facilitated intercultural collaboration among teachers, enabling them to support each other's growth, and achieve teacher agency.

The interactive teaching tools in IMMERSE helped teachers guide students more effectively and encourage active learning.

Employees significantly increased their speaking time by 23.9% each week, with a 2.75x increase over the 8-week course.

72% of employees reported improvements in both speaking skills and confidence.

IMMERSE helped students use English more spontaneously in VR, despite some decrease in grammatical accuracy, by providing more opportunities for oral production and comprehension.

Students engaged more actively in VR-based tasks than in traditional classroom activities, demonstrating higher motivation and willingness to communicate in English.

Korean elementary school students improved their English scores by 133% after using Immerse

The immersive VR environment positively impacted students' engagement, with learners actively engaged 97.5% of the time during lessons, primarily through interactions with peers and objects in the virtual environment.

IMMERSE provided trainee teachers with an interactive and immersive teaching experience, with participants reporting that it enhanced student engagement and made lesson planning more dynamic.

IMMERSE empowered trainee teachers to create engaging, real-world lesson scenarios that increased student participation and helped them develop confidence in using VR as an effective teaching tool.

Learners reported that practicing in IMMERSE's realistic virtual environments boosted their confidence in using English in real-life situations, viewing it as valuable rehearsal for future experiences.

The ability to navigate and interact within IMMERSE's virtual spaces enabled learners to practice spatial terms like 'here' and 'there,' leading to more natural interactions and detailed, authentic conversations relevant to their daily lives.

IMMERSE students outperformed the control group by 7.5% on their final oral exam and reported being 16.1% more motivated to learn Spanish by the semester’s end.

Students using IMMERSE reduced their foreign language anxiety by 6.16%, while the control group saw a 1% increase, and IMMERSE students scored 17.6% higher on willingness to communicate.

IMMERSE helped students significantly improve their English speaking skills by an average of 24%.

Students’ fluency improved by 25%, vocabulary by 38%, pronunciation by 11%, and grammar by 26% on average.

Refugee ESL students in the U.S. experienced a 19% increase in their willingness to communicate in English after just 1.5 hours of speaking practice with IMMERSE’s AI-powered avatars.

Students increased the amount they were speaking during AI conversations by 49% after just 1.5 hours.

92% of students reported feeling less anxious when speaking with IMMERSE’s AI-powered avatars compared to traditional classroom activities.

70% of students indicated that VR helped them fully focus on learning by removing external distractions.

57.1% of participants reported feeling more confident speaking English in VR, with those who initially had the highest speaking anxiety experiencing the greatest confidence boost.

100% of participants said they would recommend VR language learning to others, and 57.14% requested more information about future VR courses.

IMMERSE provided an authentic learning environment that helped students practice real-world conversations, leading to increased speaking confidence and reduced language anxiety.

Students who engaged in VR-based conversation simulations demonstrated improved fluency, pronunciation, and willingness to communicate in the target language.

Students reported that IMMERSE enhanced their IELTS speaking preparation by increasing their cognitive engagement, improving their ability to structure responses, and reinforcing key language skills such as grammar, fluency, and coherence.

IMMERSE created a low-anxiety environment, making students feel more confident in speaking and fostering higher affective engagement with the IELTS speaking tasks.

Teachers expressed interest in integrating IMMERSE into their lessons, believing it can enhance teaching by actively engaging students.

Teachers noted that IMMERSE would foster active, experiential learning for their students.

100% of students agreed that IMMERSE helped improve their English-speaking skills, with 75% reporting that avatars lowered their speaking anxiety.

Students found that objects in the virtual scenes facilitated communication, making it easier to start conversations, and reported that VR helped them collaborate better with others, suggesting that the VR environment mediated communication and promoted higher-order thinking skills.

Teachers reported that IMMERSE's virtual scenes made lesson content feel more authentic, leading to higher retention of language structures over time.

Teachers found IMMERSE's classroom management tools, such as the ability to control student audio, critical for successful teaching.

97.5% of students enjoyed being able to interact with objects and peers while learning in IMMERSE, with many highlighting object interaction (27%) and collaborative learning with peers (21.3%) as key benefits.

40.9% of students rated their VR learning experience as “awesome,” 56.6% found it “OK,” and only 3.3% rated it “not so good,” with students frequently describing it as fun (19.4%) and effective for expanding vocabulary (13.6%).

Students who took lessons in Immerse, whether on desktop or in VR, improved their TOEIC speaking scores by up to 13.24% after just 4 hours, demonstrating that both modes effectively support language learning.

High-immersion VR lessons helped reduce foreign language anxiety (FLA), with students reporting a stronger sense of presence and immersion compared to low-immersion lessons.

IMMERSE had a positive impact on their English language learners’ reading and listening proficiency.

IMMERSE also positively impacted learners’ motivation and willingness to communicate in English.

Students performed at the B1-B2 CEFR level in VR, compared to A1-A2 during comparable classroom activities, indicating that IMMERSE can facilitate higher-level language use.

Participants not only learned the vocabulary explicitly taught in IMMERSE but also acquired additional vocabulary naturally through contextual immersion, suggesting that VR settings enhance incidental vocabulary learning.

Learners reported lower foreign language anxiety (FLA) when speaking in a virtual reality environment, which was supported by both self-reported measures and physiological indicators (salivary cortisol).

Participants were more comprehensible when speaking in VR compared to a traditional classroom setting, suggesting that reduced anxiety in VR leads to improved oral production.

English speaking skills improved 9x more in IMMERSE compared to traditional classroom learning.

Japanese students using IMMERSE increased their TOEIC scores by over 100 points on average, compared to the traditional classroom average of only 56 points over three years.

Learners reported that being represented by avatars in IMMERSE made practice conversations more meaningful and realistic, leading them to speak more.

The immersive VR environment provided a communicative and interactive space that enhanced engagement and facilitated language learning through task-based activities.

Students’ listening comprehension abilities improved by 21% after an average of just six 30-minute lessons in IMMERSE, with listening scores increasing significantly from an average of 260 to 322 (p < .01).

Students reported feeling more comfortable conversing in English with their avatars, experiencing less anxiety and stress compared to face-to-face conversations, showing that VR-based English lessons effectively reduced foreign language anxiety and improved motivation.

Japanese university students who participated in VR English lessons using IMMERSE reported significantly increased confidence in their ability to handle A2-level speaking tasks, such as exchanging opinions and giving short presentations.

Participants stated that learning in VR reduced their anxiety, made speaking English more comfortable, and provided an enjoyable alternative to face-to-face conversation practice.

Students’ TOEIC scores increased by an average of 6.3 points (a 5.02% increase) after just 135 minutes of learning in IMMERSE.

98.8% of students reported lower foreign language anxiety and improved speaking skills after just two hours of learning in IMMERSE, with confidence in English presentation skills increasing by 32% after three lessons.

IMMERSE enables English for Specific Purposes (ESP) learners to practice professional language in real-life simulated settings, such as networking events, hotels, and news stations.

The platform helps students develop soft skills like problem-solving, negotiation, and public speaking through task-based language learning in immersive, interactive environments.

Students reported higher engagement levels in VR than in standard hybrid lessons, with the immersive environments fostering more meaningful communication and participation.

Teachers preferred VR-enhanced hybrid classes over standard hybrid lessons, as it helped bridge the gap between in-person and online students, making language production more natural and improving classroom interaction.

IMMERSE helped 86% of Microsoft Korea employees feel more confident using English at work and in daily life after completing the 16-week VR course.

100% of participants enjoyed learning English in realistic VR environments, and 71% said they would take another VR English course.

Students' TOEIC Speaking scores increased by an average of 10 points (an 8.5% increase) after 200 minutes of instruction using IMMERSE.

The use of avatars in IMMERSE reduced students' foreign language anxiety by 11%.

Japanese university students using IMMERSE for VR English lessons reported feeling significantly less anxious and more comfortable speaking English compared to face-to-face conversations.

Students valued the ability to communicate in diverse virtual settings and reported that IMMERSE helped reduce psychological stress, making English conversation practice more engaging and effective.