Abstract
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 participants’ progress (group 1) before and after completing a five-lesson plan using the aforementioned video game, this being compared with a group of 26 Chinese students (group 2). Based on the content of the selected lessons, the main purpose of this test was to determine the participants’ initial level and then assess their progress considering the mistakes that they made regarding the word order structure, lexicon, grammar, spelling, and content. The results have shown that all the participants in group 1 progressed in the second test after completing the lessons through ImmerseMe, and their performances were generally better than those of group 2. In conclusion, it seems that the use of serious video games such as ImmerseMe can be a useful tool in the educational field of foreign language learning and teaching.
Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge the ImmerseMe team and its CEO, Scott Cardwell, for their support in this research.
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- Introduction
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- Evolution of university internationalisation strategies and language policies: challenges and opportunities for language centres
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- Designing language courses for twenty-first century competences: a model of teaching toward learner autonomy implemented in a university context in the Czech Republic
- Autonomy in language centres: myth or reality?
- “We learn from each other”: peer review writing practices in English for Academic Purposes
- Coping strategies in oral academic presentations of international undergraduate students in a Philippine university: a small-case study
- Anxiety in academic speaking situations among EFL majors: a case study
- Positive evaluation in the language of human resources: textbooks versus reality
- Promoting positive emotions among university EFL learners
- The motivations and identity aspirations of university students of German: a case study in Australia
- Towards bilingual expertise – evaluating translanguaging pedagogy in bilingual degrees at the university level
- Testing ImmerseMe with Chinese students: acquisition of foreign language forms and vocabulary in Spanish
- Activity Reports
- English for university admin staff: it’s all in the mix
- Developing interpersonal and intercultural skills in a university language course
- Introducing integrated language skills assessment at the language department of a Czech university
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Articles
- Evolution of university internationalisation strategies and language policies: challenges and opportunities for language centres
- International teleconferences in EGAP courses: preparing students for prospective professional situations
- Designing language courses for twenty-first century competences: a model of teaching toward learner autonomy implemented in a university context in the Czech Republic
- Autonomy in language centres: myth or reality?
- “We learn from each other”: peer review writing practices in English for Academic Purposes
- Coping strategies in oral academic presentations of international undergraduate students in a Philippine university: a small-case study
- Anxiety in academic speaking situations among EFL majors: a case study
- Positive evaluation in the language of human resources: textbooks versus reality
- Promoting positive emotions among university EFL learners
- The motivations and identity aspirations of university students of German: a case study in Australia
- Towards bilingual expertise – evaluating translanguaging pedagogy in bilingual degrees at the university level
- Testing ImmerseMe with Chinese students: acquisition of foreign language forms and vocabulary in Spanish
- Activity Reports
- English for university admin staff: it’s all in the mix
- Developing interpersonal and intercultural skills in a university language course
- Introducing integrated language skills assessment at the language department of a Czech university