Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Learning English is fun! Increasing motivation through video games
Año:2015

Áreas de investigación
  • Tecnología electrónica y de las comunicaciones,
  • Ciencias de la computación y tecnología informática

Datos
Descripción
In this paper we present a study made with 16 university students with different levels of proficiency in English, who were divided into two groups: those with a basic level (B1 or lower) and those who had an advanced one (B2 or higher). These two groups had the opportunity to get to know and interact with a serious game developed in the ?Universidad Politécnica de Madrid? with the aim of helping in the teaching-learning process of English as a foreign language. Before and after the interaction, all students were interviewed on various aspects related to the English learning process. Although the results show some differences in the two groups, they mainly agree in that the use of the video game greatly increases their motivation to learn English, even though they also consider that they would be able to reach the same English level studying in a more traditional way. In addition, when the students were straightly asked about the usefulness of the video game to learn English, their answers in a graded scale of agreement, ranging from 1 to 5, had an average value of 3.76.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
8th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation ICERI2015
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-84-608-2657-6
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
16/11/2015
Fecha fin congreso
18/11/2015
Desde la página
6307
Hasta la página
6316
Título de las actas
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation ICERI2015

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