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Direct linkBabad, Rivka – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation studied the effects of Teacher Directed Games (TDGs) on student vocabulary development and student engagement in a second language. Achieving automaticity with vocabulary is crucial to mastering a second language. A sample of 40 first grade students in a Jewish Day School participated in the study. Students learned their…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Learner Engagement
Peer reviewedYu-Ju Lan; Mei-Feng Shih; Yu-Ting Hsiao – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
This study aimed to create a game as scaffolding in 3D virtual worlds to enhance linguistic communication skills (LCS) in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Two ADHD children participated in the 17-week study. In 8 of the 17 weeks of the study, they logged in 3D virtual worlds to learn LCS through play twice a week, one…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Language Skills, Communication Skills, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Fenyvesi, Katalin – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study has investigated, in a quantitative survey, how the attitudes toward English lessons and the motivation for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) of 276 Danish EFL learners (starting age 7 and 9 years) changed within one year. Second, a subsample of children were interviewed. The study investigated what they liked and disliked…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation, Elementary School Students
