Research on the Influence of Summarizing Strategies on Cross-cultural Communication Learning in VR Environment

• 1、School of Education,Tianjin University,300350
• 2、School of Humanities,Tiangong University,Tianjin,300382

Abstract：With the development of VR technology, it has become a trend to use VR technology to build a virtual teaching scene for foreign language learning and conduct cross-cultural communication for situational teaching. However, the survey results have showed that some functions and designs of the existing cross-cultural communication VR project have interfered with learning. In order to explore the measures to optimize the effect of cross-cultural communication learning in VR environment, a comparative experiment was set up according to the generative learning theory, and the data of cognitive load, flow experience and learning results were collected by means of scales to explore the influence of summarizing strategies on cross-cultural communication learning in VR environment. The findings were as follows: (1) Summary strategy had no significant effect on cognitive load, flow experience and learning results in cross-cultural communication learning in VR environment; (2) Under the condition of "VR" experiment, germane cognitive load had a significant positive impact on flow experience, while extraneous cognitive load had a significant negative impact on flow experience; (3) Under the condition of "VR+ Summary" experiment, besides the above conclusions, it was also found that germane cognitive load had a significant positive impact on learning results, while intrinsic cognitive load had a significant negative impact on learning results. Based on the above research conclusions, some suggestions were put forward to improve the learning effect of cross-cultural communication learning in VR environment.

Keywords： Science of LearningVR；Summarizing strategies；Cross-cultural communicative learning；Cognitive load；Flow experience