Journal Review : Play Games for Learning

Hi there !! It’s been a while not publishing anything here. Today I would like to share another review, about a journal,

Title : The Effect of Digital Video Games on EFL Students’ Language Learning Motivation

Written by Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh and Sepideh Alavi

Shiraz University, Qasr-Dasht st., Mehr Intersection, Shiraz, Fars, Iran

ISBN : 1642-1027 “Teaching English with Technology”

This journal is about to researching the effect of digital video games on EFL students’ learning motivation. The target of this research is Junior Highschool students.

Its Introduction explain type of Digital Video Games (DVG) itself, from its purpose. There are Game based and Game enchanced language learning.

Player of the games itself has been exploded from this digital era. With over 1,909,447,000 gamers worldwide (Newzoo, 2015), DVGs affect the way people socialyze, communicate, play, and also learn.

The game based-learning is any combination of games that have a purpose to give additional benefit, that benefit is none other than education. There are so many this based-learning game on market, such as Math quiz or Find the Word. This type of DVG focus onto developing players intellegance.

The other one is Game enchanced language learning. This type of game actually focus on its nature of the game itself. This game might be any negative effect on real life, but the hidden benefits is when this game has English language on it and EFL player play it. It is commonly found in Role Play based game which has storyboard on it. When EFL player play this game, they must read the story to complete the mission, and whether they want it or not, they must learn English language to understand it. So many in game vocabularies, such as, dexterity, mana, hit point, agility, flee rate, critical, etc.

This journal will focus on game enchanced language learning that have effect on EFL students’ motivation to learn english as well and apply it in their study.

I choose this journal because I am also an EFL student who is studies English, mostly from game which I have been palyed before. Thus this journal was chosen in order to know that am I included as group of people who studies from a game and its effect itself to apply it in real life, especially in language learning motivation.

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