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ERIC Number: EJ1373701
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-May
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0958-3440
EISSN: EISSN-1474-0109
Effects of Playing the Video Game "Her Story" on Multiple Dimensions of Creativity in EFL Writing -- An International Replication Study
Huertas-Abril, Cristina A.; Muszynska, Barbara
ReCALL, v35 n2 p193-210 May 2023
This international replication study demonstrates how playing a video game is related to multiple dimensions of creativity in foreign language writing. In this research project, university students were asked to interact with a commercial murder mystery video game, "Her Story," and produce a piece of creative writing, which was a replication with a new data collection of the original study by Lee (2019). The reason for using this digital game was to provide an authentic learning opportunity for students and analyze whether digital game-based learning facilitates creativity in EFL writing. This replication, involving 25 university students from Poland and 25 university students from Spain, is a media transfer study based on the students transforming one media format (video game) into another (writing). The results demonstrate that the use of a video game with an ambiguous storyline prompts discovery (specific curiosity) and could be the determining factor for producing original, quality ideas in writing even when holding a negative view of one's creativity. The findings also indicate that the choice of genre and a viewpoint in writing may influence the level of elaboration in the texts produced by students.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Poland; Spain
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