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Tang, Joni Tzuchen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This is a comparative study that explores preschoolers' English vocabulary acquisition in Taiwan and tries to look for a better pedagogy. After Taiwan's government announced the policy of developing a "Bilingual Nation," English is the second language in Taiwan. The reforming of English instruction is in urgent need. Under this…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
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Taguchi, Naoko – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Using the single-group pre-posttest design, this exploratory study examined whether L2 learners of English can learn a speech act by experiencing perlocutionary effects of the act as feedback (observing their interlocutor's reactions to their choice of speech act expressions). Sixty undergraduate English learners at a university in China played a…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
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Muntrikaeo, Kuntida; Poonpon, Kornwipa – English Language Teaching, 2022
The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of task-based instruction using online language games in a flipped learning environment (TGF) in developing the English oral communication ability of Thai secondary students and examine the students' opinions of the task-based instruction using online language games in a flipped learning…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ng, Mun Pei; Alias, Norlidah; Dewitt, Dorothy – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2022
Purpose: Gamification is an effective method to boost students' academic achievement and engagement in second language learning. This study aimed to test the effectiveness of the gamification application, Class Dojo, among Year 4 pupils who are learning Mandarin as a Second Language (MSL). It also sought to investigate how the MSL learners became…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Diaries, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning
Souribio, Christine N. – Online Submission, 2023
"Gamification is the process of using game thinking and game dynamics to engage audiences and solve problems", Zichermann (2011). The aim of this research is to facilitate the least-learned competencies in the English subject of students of Grade 8 in Tupi National High School for the academic year 2022-2023. With this, the researcher…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Game Based Learning, High School Students, Language Tests
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Lay, Alexandra; Patton, Elizabeth; Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline – Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Dynamic assessments in general, and game-based assessment (GBA) specifically, compel us to rethink prevailing language testing conceptualizations of context. Context has traditionally been portrayed with a cognitive orientation, which focuses on static abilities, ignores complex interactions, devalues the role of tasks in determining scores, and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Game Based Learning, Evaluation Methods, Language Tests
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Altinbas, Mehmet Emre; Savas, Perihan – International Journal on E-Learning, 2020
The aim of the present study was to investigate the outcomes of using multiplayer online computer games for the development of English as a foreign language (EFL) skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking). For this purpose, the study employed a repeated measures design. The study was conducted with 13 multiplayer online gamer EFL learners…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Outcomes of Education, Language Proficiency
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Yassine-Diab, Nadia; Hartwell, Laura M.; Dejean, Sébastien – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Computer assisted vocabulary learning, i.e. specialized terminology acquisition, is a major tool to learning Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) necessary to students' professionalization. One current area of research is digital game-based language learning because of its motivating qualities. This paper discusses electronics students'…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis