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Publication Date: 2024-Jan
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Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Pragmatics: Insights from Digital Game-Based Pragmatics Instruction
Naoko Taguchi
Language Teaching, v57 n1 p57-67 2024
Learning pragmatics involves learning linguistic forms and their communicative functions as well as the context where the form-function relationships are realized. Given its socially grounded, context-sensitive nature, pragmatics may be best learned in a technology-enhanced environment that provides direct access to contextualized communicative practice. Technology can help produce rich multimodal input, opportunities for interaction with consequences, and experience-based learning, which are all important elements of pragmatics learning. This lecture highlights these benefits of technology-enhanced pragmatics learning using a digital game as a sample platform. We created a digital game to teach request-making in English by having participants experience interpersonal consequences of their request as feedback (observing their interlocutor's reactions to their choice of request-making forms). Using the digital game with Chinese learners of English, a series of studies were conducted to investigate a variety of topics, such as the effects of different feedback conditions on learning outcomes, role of metapragmatic knowledge in learning, and transfer of request-making knowledge to a novel speech act. This lecture presents findings from these studies and concludes with future research directions on technology-enhanced pragmatics learning.
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Game Based Learning, Video Games, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interpersonal Competence, Feedback (Response), Outcomes of Education, Metacognition, Knowledge Level, Transfer of Training, Speech Acts, Visual Aids, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
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