Features of the Use of Augmented Reality Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching in the Context of English Language Instruction

Abstract

Modern society needs specialists who are ready to work in a high-tech professional environment. The use of augmented reality and virtual reality technologies is a key area of professional development in the near future, including within educational institutions, to optimise the process of forming students' professional competence in the context of learning English. The purpose of the article is to study and analyse the existing experience of using educational technologies of augmented and virtual reality in teaching a foreign language. Methodology and methods: the lack of a sufficient research base dedicated directly to the experience of implementing AR and VR technologies in teaching foreign languages to university students led to the choice of a comprehensive research methodology: theoretical analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature on the topic of the study, description and analysis of the research results. As a result, the article analyses the use of augmented and virtual reality technologies in teaching foreign languages, their purpose and functions. The advantages and disadvantages of augmented and virtual reality technologies are reflected. Conclusions: the study demonstrated that educational technologies are potentially effective in teaching foreign languages at universities, and many of their shortcomings can be eliminated in the coming years in the context of neuropedagogical technologies.