Literary education and reading promotion supported in immersive literary environments with augmented reality

Abstract

The immersive literary environments (ILE) are educational settings designed on the basis of physicalobjects that recreate children’s literature works. They also provide digital information overlapped withaugmented reality (AR), favouring immersive learning, coming from the interaction with several elementsintroducing activities. With this qualitative research -focused on cases study- we intend: a) to analyse25 ILE created by pre-service teachers (N=95), intended to promote literary education and readingin preschool education. Two dimensions are considered: a) technological-interactive, describing thesupport and the AR resources, and b) educational and literary, identifying and quantifying the typesof texts and activities. 2) To determine the satisfaction level of the preservice teachers at the endof the experience, by means of a survey. The results reveal that the ILE -based on literary texts-recreate fictional worlds with AR resources, bringing characters to life and including activities with andwithout AR. 64% of the ILE employ models, 24% a lapbook and the rest prioritise other supports,including AR coloring pages, videos, characters’ animations, online games, AR markers, QR codes,etc. The innovative experience became very satisfactory for pre-service teachers, who took profit of ARopportunities to design activities for literary education and to promote a playful and multisensory learning.