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Sánchez, María José Naranjo; Garcia, Mª Mercedes Rico; Santamaría, Héctor Sánchez; Serrat, Jesús Salguero – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
With the recent emergence of the interactive TV, the iTV starts to gain ground as a learning social media forgotten in the last decades due to previously existing applications (smart phones, tablets, laptops) that surpassed it. The TV has always been used as a means of transmission and family conciliatory, but, at the same time, the necessary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interactive Video, Social Media
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Reinders, Hayo – Teaching English with Technology, 2014
Our interaction with digital resources is becoming increasingly based on touch, gestures, and now also eye movement. Many everyday consumer electronics products already include touch-based interfaces, from e-book readers to tablets, and from the last personal computers to the GPS system in your car. What implications do these new forms of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Eye Movements
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Neville, David O. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
The essay is a conceptual analysis from an instructional design perspective exploring the feasibility of using three-dimensional digital game-based learning (3D-DGBL) environments to assist in second language acquisition (SLA). It examines the shared characteristics of narrative within theories of situated cognition, context-based approaches to…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Video Games, Instructional Design, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Stanley, Graham; Mawer, Kyle – TESL-EJ, 2008
The term serious game is often used to refer to "games used for training, advertising, simulation, or education." In this article, the authors use the term computer game in its broadest sense, believing it to encompass the broad spectrum of what is usually referred to now as all digital gaming (video games, console games, online games, etc.). They…
Descriptors: Video Games, Internet, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
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Harushimana, Immaculee – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2008
This paper develops the argument that new literacies constitute an indispensable foundation for developing school discourse among 1.5 and newcomer urban adolescents. A mother and literacy educator presents insights learned from indirectly participating in co-constructing Standard English discourse with her newcomer adolescent son through video…
Descriptors: Video Games, Literacy, Urban Youth, English (Second Language)
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Hansson, Thomas – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2005
A pilot study at a local school explores a virtual world during English lessons. The objective of applying a Vygotskian experimental design to the study is to investigate the potential of software, interaction and integration related to problem-solving defined as text composition in a foreign language. Focus of research and practices is on the…
Descriptors: Interaction, Second Language Instruction, Integrated Activities, Video Games