The 77th episode of Parse is an excerpt of a talk given by Dr. Peyman Nojoumian titled “Innovative Technology in the Language Classroom: Using Virtual Reality in Task-Based Language Teaching”.   

Nojoumian is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Persian at the University of Southern California. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa, Canada and two masters: one in Speech & Language Technology from KU Leuven, Belgium and one in Teaching Persian as a Foreign Language from Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran. He has published the Persian Learner Series and developed the Persian Learner’s Dictionary, a smartphone web app for Persian learners. His most recent publications include a chapter in the 2020 Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian.  

To watch the full talk, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr7jhIC2zl0&t=623s