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Ahmad Syawaluddin; Nur Aeni – Discover Education, 2025
This study looks at how utilizing digital versions of classic games specifically Snakes and Ladders can help young learners learn more vocabulary in English. The study focuses on how digital versions of classic games can improve primary school students' vocabulary learning and retention. A quasi-experimental approach was used, with a control group…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
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Ananda Sadyva Aulia Putri; Suvi Akhiriyah – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
Web-based games can be an alternative learning media for students to improve their vocabulary mastery in reading. Nevertheless, few studies look at how web-based games can be used as a teaching tool to help junior high school students improve their vocabulary, especially in the context of reading. The main objective of this research is to know the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Mastery Learning, Junior High School Students, Computer Games
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Yu-Fen Yang; Wen-Min Hsieh; Wing-Kwong Wong; Yi-Chun Hong; Siao-Cing Lai – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) is considered a central affective factor influencing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning. This study thus developed an online simulation game to create a virtually situated learning environment for reducing EFL primary school students' FLA levels and improving their English vocabulary learning. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Demir, Elif Çelebi; Ari, Asim – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2023
The aim of the study is to reveal the teachers' view about 8th grade English Course book and educational programme about vocabulary teaching. The study is valuable for examining 8th grade English teaching programme and course book in terms of vocabulary teaching and revealing the current situation in the programme and the course book. Vocabulary…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Poole, Frederick J.; Clarke-Midura, Jody – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Research involving digital games and language learning is rapidly growing. One advantage of using digital games to support language learning is the ability to collect data on students learning in real time. In this study, we use educational data mining methods to explore the relationship between in-game data and elementary students' Chinese…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Data Analysis
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Quiroz, Martín Flores; Gutiérrez, Ricardo; Rocha, Franco; Valenzuela, María Paz; Vilches, Cynthia – Teaching English with Technology, 2021
This research investigates the effects of the use of Kahoot! to improve English vocabulary learning in an EFL context using a quasi-experimental post-test design. An experimental and a control group from two 9th grade classes participated in the study. A pre- and post-test were applied to both groups and the scores of both groups were compared to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Katemba, Caroline V.; Sinuhaji, Grace V. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
The teaching of vocabulary is essential in the world of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). EFL learners have problems in learning vocabulary. To attract the students' attention, the teachers should have adequate teaching methods. One of the teachers' efforts to engage the students is by applying ESA (engage, study, and activate) through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Goodwin, Amanda; Petscher, Yaacov; Tock, Jamie – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Middle school students use the information conveyed by morphemes (i.e., units of meaning such as prefixes, root words and suffixes) in different ways to support their literacy endeavours, suggesting the likelihood that morphological knowledge is multidimensional. This has important implications for assessment. Methods: The current…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Student Evaluation
Goodwin, Amanda P.; Petscher, Yaacov; Tock, Jamie – Grantee Submission, 2021
Background: Middle school students use the information conveyed by morphemes (i.e., units of meaning such as prefixes, root words and suffixes) in different ways to support their literacy endeavours, suggesting the likelihood that morphological knowledge is multidimensional. This has important implications for assessment. Methods: The current…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Middle School Students, Knowledge Level
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Utku, Özlem; Dolgunsöz, Emrah – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2018
The current study aimed to examine the effect of online vocabulary games on teaching new words to young learners of EFL. For this aim, 46 Turkish 5th grade EFL students in a state school were assigned into control and experimental groups. Both groups studied 22 words in 6 instructional sessions conducted in 6 subsequent weeks in the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Computer Games, Educational Technology
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Wenas, Beauty Gatari Cathleen; Tobing, Caroline V. Katemba – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2016
The purpose of this study is to find the enhancement of students' vocabulary achievement using Online Games and Pictures Instruction. This study used quantitative research method and comparative design. This study was designed to seek the answer to the following question: Is there any significant difference on the students' vocabulary enhancement…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Games, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
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Pan, Wen Fu – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The objective of this study was to test whether the Kinect motion-sensing interactive system (KMIS) enhanced students' English vocabulary learning, while also comparing the system's effectiveness against a traditional computer-mouse interface. Both interfaces utilized an interactive game with a questioning strategy. One-hundred and twenty…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Control Groups
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory