Language at Play: Digital Games in Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (Theory and Practice in Second Language Classroom Instruction)

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Language at Play: Digital Games in Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (Theory and Practice in Second Language Classroom Instruction)

Written by Julie Sykes
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This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include anymedia, website access codes, or print supplements that may comepackaged with the bound book.How digital games can inform, enhance andtransform L2 pedagogyThe potential of digital games in the secondand foreign (L2) classroom is enormous but harnessing theirpotential for application in the L2 classroom, however,presents complex challenges. In Language at Play: Digital Games inSecond and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Sykesand Reinhart combine research from a variety of perspectives inapplied linguistics, educational gaming, and games studies,and structure their discussion of five major conceptscentral to these areas: goal, interaction, feedback, motivation andcontext.  While theoretically grounded, the volume'saudience is primarily practicing L2 professionals withclassroom experience.  Intended for current and future foreignlanguage teaching professionals, volumes in the Theory andPractice in Second Language Classroom Instruction seriesexamine issues in teaching and learning in language classrooms. Thetopics selected and the discussions of them draw in principled wayson theory and practice in a range of fields, including secondlanguage acquisition, foreign language education, educationalpolicy, language policy, linguistics, and other areas of appliedlinguistics.

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Published October 10, 2012
ISBN 19915670
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