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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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Torres-Rodríguez, Fabio Adrián; Martínez-Granada, Liliana – HOW, 2022
Fostering spoken communication in a foreign language classroom is not an easy task. With that in mind, this paper explores a proposal to motivate students' L2 oral communication through the practice of narrative games called tabletop roleplaying games adapted as task-based activities. It implied an action research process in which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
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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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Couture-Matte, Robin – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
The present study explored negotiated interaction with Grade 6 students (age 11-12) engaged in communicative tasks supported by Club Penguin Island, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unlike previous studies on digital games, the present study assessed the use of Club Penguin Island during face-to-face interaction.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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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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Muntrikaeo, Kuntida; Poonpon, Kornwipa – English Language Teaching, 2022
The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of task-based instruction using online language games in a flipped learning environment (TGF) in developing the English oral communication ability of Thai secondary students and examine the students' opinions of the task-based instruction using online language games in a flipped learning…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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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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Maria Kikidou; Eleni Griva – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2023
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an innovative approach which attempts to comprise holistic features, focusing on the meaning and at the same time providing opportunities for purposeful language use (Dalton-Puffer, 2007). Based on the triptych language of learning, language for learning and language through learning- this program…
Descriptors: Greek, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pellerin, Martine – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The paper examines how the game Minecraft can be used as a new digital learning environment in the context of second language teaching and learning. It explores how the concepts of digital space and digital place within the new 3D digital environment can contribute to reshaping the language learners' experience and promote greater engagement in…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students, French
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Vallorani, Cecilia Maria; Gibert, Isabel; Tuffnell, Christopher – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2022
This study examines the use of gamification as an innovative assessment approach to foreign language learning with 12-14-year-old students. A mixed methodology has been applied. Quantitative data have been collected from formative non-gamified and gamified assessments. Qualitative data was collected from a student questionnaire. The results were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Games, Game Based Learning
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Purgina, Marina; Mozgovoy, Maxim; Blake, John – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
Gamification of language learning is a clear trend of recent years. Widespread use of smartphones and the rise of mobile gaming as a popular leisure activity contribute to the popularity of gamification, as application developers can rely on an unprecedented reach of their products and expect acceptance of game-like elements by the users. In terms…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Grammar, Computer Software
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Kayan, Adil; Aydin, Ibrahim Seçkin – World Journal of Education, 2020
Discussions on how grammar should be taught have continued for decades. Previous studies have reported that today's students called as Generation Z have shown negative attitudes toward grammar teaching with traditional methods and techniques, and that their academic achievements have failed to meet expectations. Not using methods and techniques…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Games, Computer Games
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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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