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ERIC Number: ED600876
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Dec
Pages: 7
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Shouting in Space: Promoting Oral Reading Fluency with Spaceteam ESL
Cardoso, Walcir; Waddington, David; Kiforo, Enos; Sénécal, Anne-Marie
Research-publishing.net, Paper presented at the EUROCALL 2019 Conference (27th, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Aug 28-31, 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 post-tested the participants on their ability to read aloud efficiently ("speed") and accurately ("accuracy") in three tasks: (1) phrases extracted from the game; (2) phrases not related to the game; and (3) an anecdote. Our findings indicate that participants who played Spaceteam ESL improved their ORF on all measures of "speed," but no significant differences were observed in terms of "accuracy." Overall, these findings corroborate our hypothesis that some of the affordances of Spaceteam ESL (e.g. speed reading) would contribute to the development of some aspects of ORF. [For the complete proceedings, see ED600837.]
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kenya
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