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Direct linkNg, Lee Luan; Rino Sharieful Azizie; Chew, Shin Yi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
The study investigates the impact of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) on players' application of vocabulary learning strategies. The participants are experienced online gamers aged between 24 and 25 years old. Apart from identifying the vocabulary learning strategies used by the ESL players during online gaming, in order to…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Simulated Environment, Vocabulary Development, Young Adults
Download full textBakan, Ufuk; Han, Turgay; Bakan, Ugur – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2022
Although previous studies have investigated the effect of digital games on learning foreign languages, no research has examined how effective they are on learners' perceptions regarding foreign language communicative competence development. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the use of a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game…
Descriptors: Computer Games, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Pinto, Rafael Darque; Peixoto, Bruno; Melo, Miguel; Cabral, Luciana; Bessa, Maximino – Education Sciences, 2021
Virtual reality has shown to have great potential as an educational tool when it comes to new learning methods. With the growth and dissemination of this technology, there is a massive opportunity for teachers to add this technology to their methods of teaching a second/foreign language, since students keep showing a growing interest in new…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Research Reports, Computer Games
Alsowat, Hamad H. – English Language Teaching, 2020
This meta-analysis aims at investigating the impact of English language teaching practices on language outcomes. The literature search yielded 90 meta-analyses that were published between January, 1995 and December, 2019. The current study analyzed 90 meta-analysis and these studies comprised 3496 studies, 7870 effect sizes and nearly 700,000…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jensen, Signe Hannibal – Language Learning & Technology, 2019
Through the analytical lens of activity theory (Leontiev, 1978, Lantolf & Thorne, 2006), the present study investigates the uptake of affordances for language learning by young (ages 7-11) Danish children (N = 15) in their engagement with English language media in the digital wild. Drawing on ethnographic interviews (Spradley, 1979), during…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Computer Games
Goh, Shu Li – JALT CALL Journal, 2016
The rapid progress of technology has revolutionized learning and in the field of computer assisted language learning, the use of digital games has expanded significantly. One type of game that has been attracting interest is massively multiplayer online role-playing games (henceforth MMORPGs). Recent research has drawn attention to the potential…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Role Playing, Computer Games, Second Language Learning
A Taxonomy of Vocabulary Learning Strategies Used in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
Bytheway, Julie – CALICO Journal, 2015
Initiated in response to informal reports of vocabulary gains from gamers at universities in New Zealand and the Netherlands, this qualitative study explored how English language learners autonomously learn vocabulary while playing massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). Using research processes inherent in Grounded Theory, data…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Figueroa Flores, Jorge Francisco – Digital Education Review, 2015
One major competence for learners in the 21st century is acquiring a second language (L2). Based on this, L2 instruction has integrated new concepts to motivate learners in their pursue of achieving fluency. A concept that is adaptable to digital natives and digital immigrants that are learning a L2 is Gamification. As a pedagogical strategy,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods
Chen, Julian ChengChiang – Research-publishing.net, 2014
English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' language use in 3-D virtual environments is a vibrant avenue that still deserves more research attention in the field of CALL. To contribute research and pedagogical implications to the current Second Life (SL) literature, this study aims to examine EFL adult learners' use of communication strategies…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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
