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Direct linkTheodoulou, Jack; Curwood, Jen Scott – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: Videogames are complex, meaningful and multimodal texts. This study aims to explore how students could learn about narratives from, and be engaged by, playing a videogame and how a teacher adapted their pedagogy to incorporate the young adult videogame (YA game) "What Remains of Edith Finch" into an English Language Arts…
Descriptors: Video Games, Learner Engagement, English Instruction, Language Arts
Bacalja, Alexander; Nash, Brady L. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the characteristics of playful literacies in case study research examining digital games in secondary English classrooms. It analyzes how educators use play as a resource for meaning-making and the impacts of play on student learning. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used a keyword search in relevant…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Play, Game Based Learning, Language Arts
Johnson, Lindy L.; Kim, Grace MyHyun – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the use of game-based learning for approximations of practice within a critical, project-based (CPB) clinical experience for preservice teachers (PSTs). Within the clinical experience, secondary English Language Arts PSTs practiced modeling argumentative thinking through playing a board game,…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Projects, Active Learning
Lawrence, Anne M.; Sherry, Michael B. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2021
Literacy researchers have explored how video games might be used as supplementary texts in secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms to support reading instruction. However, less attention has been focused on how video games, particularly online educational games designed to teach argumentation, might enhance secondary ELA students'…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Video Games
Michael B. Sherry; Ann M. Lawrence – English Journal, 2019
In this article, the authors begin this inquiry by describing their research with a class of middle school writers who played "Quandary," a free online educational game designed to teach argumentation, as part of a unit on writing arguments for environmental action. Regarding the subject area of English language arts (ELA), research has…
Descriptors: Video Games, Technology Uses in Education, Language Arts, Middle School Students
