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Berry, David Malcolm – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
This paper investigates the effectiveness of students playing the "Spaceteam ESL" video game to enhance their pronunciation of English words and sentences. To achieve this goal, the researcher conducted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest research design. The formation of the experimental group and control group employed the practice…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness
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Casañ-Pitarch, Ricardo; Gong, Jingtao – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The use of video games in the foreign language classroom is becoming an emerging tendency. This paper aims at analysing how the serious video game "ImmerseMe" influences the learning of Spanish as a foreign language within a group of 22 Chinese students. This research was conducted through an experiment that included testing…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Camacho Vásquez, Gonzalo; Ovalle, Joan Camilo – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2019
This article is the product of an Action Research study that aimed at demonstrating the effects of videogames on vocabulary acquisition in a group of 15 students from 8th semester of the program of B.A. in English of the University of Tolima. The analysis of results, gathered by vocabulary tests and students and teachers' journals, showed that the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Action Research, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
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Calvo-Ferrer, José Ramón – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
Although the "digital natives" theory is still used to justify the implementation of technologies such as video games in the language classroom, whether digital nativeness (i.e. the extent to which an individual embodies the characteristics attributed to digital natives) may be used as a predictor of digital game-based learning outcomes…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Video Games, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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AlShaiji, Ohoud Abdullatif – Education, 2015
The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of Video Games and their role on promoting Saudi Kids' English vocabulary retention. The study attempted to answer whether there was a statistically significant difference (a = 0.05) between the Saudi children's subjects' mean score on the English vocabulary test due to using Video Games…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Games, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
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Kondo, Mutsumi; Ishikawa, Yasushige; Smith, Craig; Sakamoto, Kishio; Shimomura, Hidenori; Wada, Norihisa – ReCALL, 2012
This paper reports a project in which researchers at universities in Japan explored the use of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) practices by developing a learning module intended to help improve students' scores on the TOEIC Listening and Reading Tests. MALL practices are currently being developed at universities in Japan because almost…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Teaching Methods, Informal Education