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Liakin, Denis; Cardoso, Walcir; Waddington, David; Liakina, Natallia – Research-publishing.net, 2018
This study explores the pedagogical use of "Astronautes Français Langue Seconde (Astronautes FLS)", a cooperative digital game, in second/foreign language (L2) French teaching. It has two goals: (1) to introduce "Astronautes FLS" and its conceptualization, and (2) to report the results of a feasibility study in which we…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Cardoso, Walcir; Waddington, David; Kiforo, Enos; Sénécal, Anne-Marie – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This study examined whether the pedagogical use of Spaceteam ESL (English as a Second Language), a digital "shouting" game, could contribute to the development of Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) among 71 English students in secondary schools in Mombasa, Kenya. Following a mixed-methods approach for data collection and analysis, we pre- and…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, Second Language Instruction
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Rueb, Avery; Cardoso, Walcir; Grimshaw, Jennica – Research-publishing.net, 2018
"Prêt à Négocier" (PàN) is an interactive digital information gap game designed to help French students improve their interaction skills. In this study, we examined the effects of its use on improving French learners' vocabulary. Following a pretest/posttest design, we compared the development of 20 French words between an experimental…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French, Vocabulary Development
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Cardoso, Walcir; Rueb, Avery; Grimshaw, Jennica – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This study examines the effects of the pedagogical use of an interactive mobile digital game, Prêt à Négocier (PàN), on improving learners' pronunciation of French as a Second Language (FSL), using three holistic measures: comprehensibility, fluency, and overall pronunciation. Two groups of FSL learners engaged in different types of game-playing…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Telecommunications