Journal Review : Study of Games as Language Learning Motivation (3)

Hi everyone !! Today I would like to continue the last review about a journal about Play a games as Language Learning Motivation. This post will explain the research method and test means. Check this out.

The most important need in investigating informal educational instruments is how they work when implemented in formal contexts such as highschools.

Hoffman and Nadelson (2010) conclude that motivational engagement resulting from recreational gaming is unlikely to transfer to educational settings since classrooms are competitive and evaluative. They define motivational engagement as individuals’ conscious and willing approach toward a task to pursue a specific goal based on their interests, values, and affect. Accordingly, gamers play to fulfill recreational, social, and esteem needs without focusing much on knowledge improvement. Therefore, the change of objective enforced by classroom-context would render the motivational engagement of DVGs null and void.

A total of 241 male Iranian high school students (aged 12-18) were selected through cluster sampling from one junior and two senior high schools. These students did not know anything about game-enhanced language learning.

Twenty-one words (Appendix 1.1) were selected from the DVG Defense of the Ancients (IceFrog, 2015). They were unknown to the students as indicated through the pre-test. The test (Appendix 1.2) included 21 multiple choice items with four alternatives. Target vocabulary items were selected based on the criteria of time, avatars, and item association.

Data analysis was done using SPSS v. 21. To lessen the effects of cooperative learning, which can violate the ANOVA assumption of having independent observations, and to improve the validity of the findings, a more stringent alpha level (p = .01) was used (Stevens, 2009). Pretest-post-test scores of the motivation scale underwent a mixed.

*next week will explained

I think that’s all how they done the research. It is kinda complicated and really need much preparations, but in fact the result is valid. I will discuss the result in the next week’s posts. So, stay tuned with this blog updates. It is really interesting research, isn’t it?

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