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Download full textStollhans, Sascha – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Escape games are an increasingly popular leisure activity involving a group of players completing tasks to achieve a pre-defined goal, which is usually escaping from a room. In this chapter, I briefly outline the educational potential of escape game activities in language classes within the frameworks of gamification, pervasive learning, and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Transfer of Training, Grammar
Bédi, Branislav; Arnbjörnsdóttir, Birna; Vilhjálmsson, Hannes Högni; Helgadóttir, Hafdís Erla; Ólafsson, Stefán; Björgvinsson, Elías – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper describes how beginners of Icelandic as a foreign and second language responded to playing the first scene in Virtual Reykjavik, a video game-like environment where learners interact with virtual characters--Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). This game enables learners to practice speaking and listening skills, to learn about the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages, Video Games, Second Language Instruction
Enticknap-Seppänen, Kaisa – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This study investigates tourism undergraduates' perceptions of learning engagement and oral communication in English through their experiences of testing a pilot purpose-designed educational digital game. Reflecting the implementation of digitalization strategy in universities of applied sciences in Finland, it examines whether single instances of…
Descriptors: Tourism, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Stephens de Jonge, Julie; Labrador, Belén – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper reports our preliminary observations of a pilot project carried out from February to April 2019 with a group of students learning Spanish at the University of Central Missouri and students learning English at the University of León. The project combines challenging escape room activities with intercultural and interlinguistic…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Student Motivation, Computer Simulation, Problem Solving
Sbardella, Talia; Santucci, Valentino; Biscarini, Chiara; Nencioni, Giacomo – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The use of innovative language in education is a current and pressing issue in a digital landscape where knowledge and skills are acquired in much more complex and fragmented ways than in the past (Di Blas, 2016; Selvaggi, Sicignano, & Vollono, 2007). We are experiencing a lot of interest in flipped classrooms, interactive learning…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Instruction, Online Courses, College Second Language Programs
Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
