As virtual technology develops, it holds greater potential of application in different educational sectors, and computer-assisted interpreter training is no exception. While the last decade has witnessed development and implementation of VR-mediated interpreter education projects, more empirical evidence is still lacking and therefore warrants the academia’s attention. This pilot study intends to find out users’ experience, opinions about the affordances and challenges of a desktop VR training platform in the context of business interpreting. A mixed-methods approach was used integrating data from both close-ended and open-ended questions. Results showed that users held largely positive and converging views about the VR interpreting experience, in terms of the ingenuity, sense of presence, and the effectiveness of the platform in improving a variety of interpreters’ competence. Users also pointed out several challenges, such as equipment, design, physiological effects but the opinions were quite diverging.

Based on the interpersonal function of Systemic-functional Grammar, this paper analyzes the construction of interpersonal functions in the political discourse of the year 2022 New Year Address in China from the perspectives of personal pronoun, mood and modality. The main objective of this study is to investigate the language features and conventions of the political speech. Therefore, a study of it in the light of Systemic-functional Grammar will help to gain an in-depth understanding of the interpersonal meaning and the thoughts of national leaders in political speeches.

The purpose of this study is to describe the social and moral values in the novel Bumi Manusia by Premoedya Ananta Toer. This research uses qualitative methods, namely research that pays attention to natural data, data in relation to the context of its existence. It is these ways that encourage qualitative to be considered as multi-method because research in turn involves a large number of relevant social phenomena, the object of research being a novel written by Pramoedya Ananta Toer entitled "Bumi Human". The most commonly found element in social values is the social value in the value of affection. This value is found a lot because there are values of devotion, caring, kinship, helping. The results of this study found that social value is something that is considered good or bad in community groups. To determine whether good or bad must go through a weighing process by analyzing what is observed in community groups. In social values, there is a value of compassion related to the affection bestowed by the creator to humans so that a value of compassion has been instilled in humans since they were born, the value of responsibility relates to an act carried out by each individual based on obligation or calling. a person, and the value of harmony in life is related to tolerance, cooperation, justice, and humanity. This of course can provide the value of knowledge that is not yet known by the public.