Enhancing Spanish speaking skills of undergraduate students with metaverse role-playing

Pornpan Piriyasurawong ()

International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies, 2025, vol. 8, issue 3, 916-926

Abstract: Speaking is one of the fundamental communicative skills in a language. However, most learners experience problems in speaking a foreign language fluently and lack confidence. This research aims to enhance the Spanish speaking skills of undergraduate students using role-playing as a teaching method and incorporates it into the metaverse, which was designed and created as virtual scenes in Spain, resulting in a Metaverse role-playing approach to enhance Spanish speaking skills. The approach was implemented with a sample group of 34 undergraduate students from Kasetsart University, Thailand, who enrolled in the Spanish for Communication 1 course for the academic year 2023, selected by a simple random sampling method and conducted using a one-group pretest-posttest research design. The findings of this research were: 1) The average post-test score (x-bar) of Spanish speaking skills of undergraduate students after the metaverse role-playing approach was significantly higher than before (pre-test) at the .01 level. 2) The average post-test score (x-bar) of Spanish speaking skills of undergraduate students after using metaverse role-playing was 87.50%, which was higher than the criteria set at 80%, with statistical significance at the .01 level. Therefore, the research concludes that the metaverse role-playing approach enhances students’ learning achievement, thus also enhancing their speaking skills in Spanish.

Keywords: Metaverse; Role-playing; Spanish; Speaking skills. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ijirss.com/index.php/ijirss/article/view/6664/1305 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aac:ijirss:v:8:y:2025:i:3:p:916-926:id:6664

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies is currently edited by Natalie Jean

More articles in International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies from Innovative Research Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Natalie Jean ().