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Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency Improvements through Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Case Study
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Jabbari, Nasser; Peterson, Mark – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Many English as a foreign language (EFL) learners worldwide spend hours playing commercial-off-the-shelf massively multiplayer online games. They engage in a multitude of different interactions with the game environment and possibly with other gamers, using English as the predominant medium of communication. This raises the question of whether…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Video Games, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Exploring the Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Reading Skills in Spanish to English in the Context of a Computer Adaptive Reading Intervention
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Baker, Doris Luft; Basaraba, Deni Lee; Smolkowski, Keith; Conry, Jillian; Hautala, Jarkko; Richardson, Ulla; English, Sherril; Cole, Ron – Bilingual Research Journal, 2017
We explore the potential of a computer-adaptive decoding game in Spanish to increase the decoding skills and oral reading fluency in Spanish and English of bilingual students. Participants were 78 first-grade Spanish-speaking students attending bilingual programs in five classrooms in Texas. Classrooms were randomly assigned to the treatment…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Pretests Posttests, Spanish, Oral Reading
Exploring the Cross-­Linguistic Transfer of Reading Skills in Spanish to English in the Context of a Computer Adaptive Reading Intervention
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Baker, Doris Luft; Basaraba, Deni Lee; Smolkowski, Keith; Conry, Jillian; Hautala, Jarkko; Richardson, Ulla; English, Sherryl; Cole, Ron – Grantee Submission, 2017
We explore the potential of a computer-adaptive decoding game in Spanish to increase the decoding skills and oral reading fluency in Spanish and English of bilingual students. Participants were 78 first-grade Spanish-speaking students attending bilingual programs in five classrooms in Texas. Classrooms were randomly assigned to the treatment…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games, Decoding (Reading)