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Direct linkJabbari, Nasser; Peterson, Mark – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Many English as a foreign language (EFL) learners worldwide spend hours playing commercial-off-the-shelf massively multiplayer online games. They engage in a multitude of different interactions with the game environment and possibly with other gamers, using English as the predominant medium of communication. This raises the question of whether…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Video Games, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Download full textShahrokni, Seyed Abdollah – TESL-EJ, 2021
This ethnographic case study aims to examine second language socialization (SLS) in a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) called Stronghold Kingdoms (SK). To explore the affordances of this community for SLS, the social dynamics in a Faction community during 4 life-time periods, namely, war, post-war peace and life in exile, end of the world,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Computer Games, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lin, Grace Hui Chin – Online Submission, 2020
This research was aimed at investigating the pedagogical roles of computer games (Hao et al, 2019, Chen & Hsu, 2019). It explored the impact of computer "mixed with language" (White et al, 2019) training, using simulation games, upon language acquisition and diverse daily-life knowledge. In a teacher preparation university of western…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Computer Games, Training
Sydorenko, Tetyana; Hellermann, John; Thorne, Steven L.; Howe, Vanessa – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
Applications of locative media (e.g., place-based mobile augmented reality [AR]) are used in various educational content areas and have been shown to provide learners with valuable opportunities for investigation-based learning, location-situated social and collaborative interaction, and embodied experience of place (Squire, 2009; Thorne &…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis
Newgarden, Kristi; Zheng, Dongping – ReCALL, 2016
In this study of affordances for second language (L2) learning in World of Warcraft (WoW) group play, we compared three gameplay episodes spanning a semester-long course. Applying multimodal analysis framed by ecological, dialogical and distributed (EDD) views (Zheng and Newgarden, forthcoming), we explored four English as a second language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Games
Hadjistassou, Stella Kyprou – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2017
This article explores the underlying processes involved as two experienced Portuguese as a foreign language instructors, who are novices to 3D technologies, became immersed in the epistemology of teaching in a 3D context. The two instructors undertook a challenging initiative to develop and deliver two sections of oral Portuguese in a 3D…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
