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Gao, Yuchan; Gee, Elisabeth – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2023
The game-mediated second and foreign language (GML2) field investigates how games can be used in facilitating L2 teaching and learning. This review explores how researchers define and differentiate among GML2 practices. A total of 51 publications from 2010 to 2021 were analyzed, revealing that only 40% of the publications defined GML2 practices,…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Matilda Ståhl; Katri Hansell; Sandra Bäck; Mattias Wingren – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2025
Playing video games engages children and youth and offers a potential for learning in general and situated language learning in particular. The aim of this paper is to explore the situated conditions and affordances for facilitating in-game interaction, as well as to discuss the language learning potential and educational implications of these…
Descriptors: Video Games, Cooperative Learning, Interaction, Children
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Kaya, Gamze; Sagnak, Hatice Cilsalar – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2022
Since gamification has strengthened its place in education over the years, it is frequently preferred in English as a Second Language Learning. This study aims to investigate the literature on the effects of gamification on students' English learning as a second language and the tendency of students to use games to learn English as a second…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Heng-Sheng Lin; Chih-Yun Chiang; Cheng-Wei Huang; Chao-Cian Wu; Shuo-Jun Hong – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2025
Taiwanese students learn Chinese from 3 years old using Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao), but they still struggle with spelling and reading, even in middle school. Thus, we guided students still struggling to read Chinese text to use their logical skills and creativity to incorporate the Bopomofo phonetic alphabet into the Rummikub strategy board game.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Active Learning, Feedback (Response)
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Calvo-Ferrer, José Ramón – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
The frequency of word exposure in teaching materials, along with corrective feedback, has often been identified as a powerful variable in the learning of vocabulary in a foreign language. The effect of the number of times an action is presented as accurate in digital game-based language learning scenarios (i.e., knowledge of correct response [KCR]…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Computer Games, Video Games
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Li, Ke; Peterson, Mark; Wang, Qiao – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
This paper reports on a project that draws upon the framework of the community of inquiry to support game-based language learning outside classroom. Case study design was employed to collect and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data, with a view to investigating the participants' language development, participation, and perception. This…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Second Language Learning