Commercial-off-the-shelf games in the digital wild and L2 learner vocabulary
Study details
| Year: | 2015 |
| Scope: | National |
| Countries: | Sweden |
| Methodology: | Empirical research – Mixed methods |
| Methods of data collection: | Other; Survey; Interview |
| Other Methodology: | Tests; school grades |
| Researched Groups: | Children |
| Children Ages: | Adolescents (14-18 Years old) |
| Funder: | the Center for Language and Literature in Education (CSL) and Research On Subject-specific Education (ROSE), Karlstad University, Sweden |
| Funder Types: | University |
| Consents: | Consent obtained from children |
| Informed Consent: | Consent obtained |
| Ethics: | Ethical considerations and/or protocol mentioned in the research design |
| URL: | https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/44674/1/23_01_10125-44674.pdf |
| Data Set Availability: | Not mentioned |
Goals
"1. To what extent is there a relation between the time spent playing COTS games and L2 English vocabulary test measures?
2. To what extent is there a relation between four type-of-game-preference groups (i.e., non-gamers, SP, MP, and MMO) and L2 English vocabulary test measures?
3. What does an examination of solution rates (percentage of correct answers) of individual vocabulary items in a productive levels test reveal about gamers’ productive vocabulary? Is it different from non-gamers’ productive vocabulary? If so, how?
4. What does an examination of infrequent vocabulary in essays reveal about productive vocabulary use among gamers? Is it different from non-gamers’ productive use of infrequent vocabulary? If so, how?"
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