scholarly journals Study on the Influence of Technology-Assisted Role-Playing Activities and Traditional Theatrical Performances on Foreign Language Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Yi Huang
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Theatrical Performances

Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games as English as a Foreign Language Learning Environments

2019 ◽  
pp. 162-182
Author(s):  
Hélder Fanha Martins
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Role Playing Games

The objective of this chapter is to gain a better understanding of the usefulness of massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) for promoting English as a foreign language (EFL) acquisition. To accomplish this goal, the author analyzed specific categories of interaction occurring between English language learners while playing an online game entitled Eve Online. Previous research has proved that there are positive outcomes on EFL acquisition from the interaction that takes place while playing video games known as MMORPGs. These games immerse players in virtual worlds that are inhabited by hundreds and even thousands of other players, and all are partaking in the game in real time. Learners who choose to play the game in a foreign language are exposed to target language input in a context-rich environment where they can interact with native-speakers and other language learners.

scholarly journals Beyond Drama: Postdramatic theater in upper level, performance-oriented foreign language, literature and culture courses

2014 ◽  
Vol VIII (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Morgan Koerner
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
Postdramatic Theater

This article makes the case for expanding drama pedagogy in foreign language education to include strategies from postdramatic theater, which abandons traditional notions of plot, character, and dialogue and prioritizes theatrical performances over dramatic texts. The article presents findings from an action research project conducted with undergraduate students of German at the College of Charleston, South Carolina in the spring semester of 2013. It describes and discusses the efficacy of specific postdramatic theater strategies and assignments that encouraged Bachelor’s students of German to think beyond dramatic convention by detaching body from character, separating voice and movement from text, and exploring a heterogeneity of theatrical codes via hands-on writing and directing exercises. Based on extensive documentation of the course and the learners’ experiences, the article concludes by discussing postdramatic theater’s capacity to promote foreign language learning, critical thinking, and unfamiliar modes of perception and signification.

MMORPGS and Foreign Language Education

2009 ◽  
pp. 402-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Zhao ◽  
Chun Lai
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Ideal Language ◽  
Massively Multiplayer

This chapter provides an overview of the potential of massively multiplayer role-playing games (MMORPGs) for foreign language education and discusses how MMORPGs can be better designed to support foreign language education. It reviews current conceptualizations on ideal language learning environments, discusses the potential of MMORPGs for foreign language education, and elaborates on how to design MMORPGs to facilitate foreign language learning. The authors hope that this discussion will help foreign language educators realize and capitalize on the values of MMORPGs in foreign language education, and will guide the design of MMORPGs for foreign language learning.

scholarly journals THE EDUCATIONAL GAME AS A TECHNIQUE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NON-LINGUISTIC STUDENTS FOREIGN-LANGUAGE SPEECH ACTIVITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 225 ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
N.V. Eremina ◽  
◽  
V.V. Tomin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Role Playing Game ◽  
Context Of Learning

Education faces the challenges of modern society, which is in high demand for effective tools for teaching foreign languages at a non-linguistic university. Today the main approach applied is a combination of traditional and intensive methods relying on a functional-communicative linguodidactic model. In the context of learning a foreign language, students not always have an opportunity for speech practice. The peculiarity of the discipline is that communication is the goal and means of learning. Thus, it is required to frame out the imaginary activities as an operational background of the communication (as means), and to show the necessity of speech acts, without which it is impossible to reach the goals of such activity. It is shown that the most productive way to arrange group communication in class is the educational plot-based role-playing game. Being a methodical technique belonging to the group of active methods of teaching practical knowledge and skills, yet, it is one of the forms of the speech situation organization, used for training purposes. However, the article describes an attempt to prove the advantages of a polylogical form of communication over the dialogic one. It was discovered that the number of game roles influenced the nature of the participants’ verbal interaction and the level of their overall involvement. Besides, regular role-playing in class allowed to raise the general learning level of most students gradually. The obtained results, conclusions, and recommendations allow more extensive use of role-playing for a foreign language learning and upbringing of students.

scholarly journals Role-playing games in teaching communication in a foreign language

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.A. Baeva ◽  
E.M. ZHavoronkova ◽  
T.A. Sinicyna
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Future Work

The article deals with the role-playing method allowing to include foreign language learning in the model of the future work of medical students. Role-playing related to the doctor’s professional activities raises interest in learning foreign languages, increases personal importance, brings learning process to the real communication.

Individual differences in adult foreign language learning

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Brooks ◽  
Vera Kempe ◽  
Annemarie Donachie
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning

Animacy Effects Persist in Foreign-Language Learning

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua E. Vanarsdall ◽  
James S. Nairne ◽  
Mindi Cogdill ◽  
Josefa N. S. Pandeirada
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning
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