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Publication Date: 2022
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Digital Games and the Development of Plurilingual Competence: Language Models, Language Awareness and Transformational Play
JALT CALL Journal, v18 n3 p316-334 2022
The potential of games to support language learning and acquisition -- be it in the digital wilds or in the foreign language classroom -- has often been discussed. In this article, I will look at digital games from an explicitly plurilingual perspective. I describe five existing games that demonstrate a plurilingual outlook (Romanica, MElang-E, BabelAR, LoCALL, World of Languages), focusing on their potential regarding modelling plurilingual competencies, fostering language awareness, and encouraging transformational play. I finish with a discussion of overall trends that can be observed across the five games and ramifications regarding pedagogy and future research.
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Computer Games, Multilingualism, Language Proficiency, Transformative Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages), Game Based Learning
JALT CALL SIG. 1-6-1 Nishiwaseda Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan. e-mail: journal!jaltcall.org; Web site: http://journal.jaltcall.org
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Language: English
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