Volume 28 Number 1, 2024 Language learning through game-mediated activities: Analysis of learners’ multimodal participation

Language learning through game-mediated activities: Analysis of learners’ multimodal participation

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Volume 28 Number 1, 2024
contributor.author:
Gao, Yuchan
date.accessioned:
2024-09-06T20:02:13Z
date.available:
2024-09-06T20:02:13Z
date.copyright:
2024
date.issued:
2024-09-09
description.abstract:
Second language learning is a multimodal phenomenon and thus investigating the multimodal aspects of learners’ language learning has become a promising area for research (Guichon & McLornan, 2008; Hardison & Pennington, 2021). Traditionally, language learners’ interactions during classroom activities are often understood by analyzing text-based data, which is not sufficient to paint the full picture of learners’ multimodal participation (Helm & Dooly, 2017). Thus, examining learners’ multimodal participation during classroom activities (i.e., gestures, facial expressions, head movement) has become a need to better paint the picture of students’ learning processes. By adopting a multimodal (inter)action analysis, the present study sought to explore participants’ multimodal participation during a game-mediated project that consisted of playing a video game and completing a series of wraparound activities. Focusing on a small group of English language learners and one teacher, this multiple-case exploratory study provided detailed descriptions of how they participated in game-mediated activities as well as communicated with one another. Findings suggested participants using multimodal elements to help enhance their communication by explaining the meaning and pronunciation of words, and providing additional information to their communication, even when the spoken language was not being used. Implications for both research and practice were discussed as well.
endingpage:
22
format.extent:
22
identifier.citation:
Gao, Y. (2024). Language learning through game-mediated activities: Analysis of learners’ multimodal participation. Language Learning & Technology, 28(1), 1–22. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73594
identifier.issn:
1094-3501
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73594
language:
eng
number:
1
publicationname:
Language Learning & Technology
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rights.license:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
rights.uri:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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/item/10125-73594/
startingpage:
1
subject:
Game-mediated activities, Multimodal participation, Multimodal (inter)action analysis, Second language learners
title:
Language learning through game-mediated activities: Analysis of learners’ multimodal participation
type:
Article Text
volume:
28