Developing Virtual Reality for English Presentation and Negotiation Skills Training Model

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10.2991/978-2-494069-69-5_13How to use a DOI?

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English; virtual reality; presentation; negotiation; SMES Actors

Abstract

This study is based on a previous study conducted by the researcher in 2020 on 478 actors of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who joined UMKM Juara and UMKM Binaan Rumah BUMN Bandung communities in West Java, Indonesia. The results of the prior study indicate that the awareness of the importance of mastering English is extremely high among SMEs actors (98%) Their desire to learn English is equally strong (98.4%), and this coincides with the significant interest of SMEs actors in becoming exporters (92.8%). During the development of the English skill six-month training in 2021, a new issue arose. It was revealed that the SMEs actors had a strong desire to gain direct experience in practicing English with native speakers in a more realistic setting for conducting global business, which was deemed unlikely due to the Covid-19 epidemic. Yet, using virtual reality technology, this research conducted the training to improve the SMEs actors’ English proficiency, focusing on presentation and negotiation skills. The utilization of virtual reality technology in the training of English skill enhancement was anticipated to provide SMEs actors with an experience that was as close as possible to the actual conditions of conducting global business, thereby encouraging them to be more confident in entering the export market and contributing to the national economic recovery. This article is a conceptual paper in which the research's concept and innovation might be expanded.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Iis Kurnia Nurhayati
AU  - Yulia Nur Hasanah
AU  - Fathah Noor Prawita
AU  - Fakhrul Razy
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/01
TI  - Developing Virtual Reality for English Presentation and Negotiation Skills Training Model
BT  - Proceedings of the Conference on Digital Humanities 2022 (CODH 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 133
EP  - 148
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-69-5_13
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-69-5_13
ID  - Nurhayati2023
ER  -