Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia
Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia
Simulation/gaming and the acquisition of communicative competence in another language
Simulation and Gaming
ZIP & TERRY: a new attempt at designing language learning simulation
Simulation and Gaming
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Digital Game-Based Learning
Understanding Video Games
Editorial: Second language acquisition and simulation
Simulation and Gaming
Word Score: A serious vocabulary game for primary school underachievers
Education and Information Technologies
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In this paper I shall discuss the potential of educational games (Serious Games) for teaching and learning English online focusing on user engagement, performance and design. The paper builds on data from a research project, Serious Games on a Global Market Place in which a platform for learning English as a foreign language in primary school (www.Mingoville.com) has been studied in the context of English as a foreign language in Denmark. On the basis of the initial research results from the project I am proposing that performance and engagement through Serious Games for language learning should be understood in the context of gaming and learning as both separate and interconnected processes. In this connection the mediating role of the teacher is particularly significant.