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Ruofei Zhang; Gary Cheng; Di Zou – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
Digital game-based vocabulary learning (DGBVL) integrates key game elements such as Challenges, Rewards, Human-Computer Interactions (HCI), Multimedia, and Fantasy. Although the overall effectiveness of digital games in enhancing English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) vocabulary knowledge development is well-established, the specific roles of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Computer Games, English (Second Language), Learner Engagement
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Reinders, Hayo; Wattana, Sorada – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
This paper reports on a study into the effects of digital game play on learners' Willingness to Communicate (WTC), or individuals' "readiness to enter into discourse at a particular time with a specific person or persons, using a L2" (MacIntyre, Dörnyei, Clément, & Noels, 1998, p. 547). Thirty Thai learners of English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Readiness, English (Second Language), Computer Games
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Chik, Alice – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
The relationship between digital game play and second language (L2) learning is a particularly tricky issue in East Asia. Though there is an emerging presence of Chinese online games, many more young people are playing the English- or Japanese-language versions of the most popular commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) video games. In other words, most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Games, Second Language Learning, Educational Technology