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Learning English through Serious Games – Reflections on Teacher and Learner Performance

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Transactions on Edutainment III

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In this paper I shall discuss the potential of educational games (Serious Games) for teaching and learning English online focusing on user engagement, performance and design. The paper builds on data from a research project, Serious Games on a Global Market Place in which a platform for learning English as a foreign language in primary school (www.Mingoville.com) has been studied in the context of English as a foreign language in Denmark. On the basis of the initial research results from the project I am proposing that performance and engagement through Serious Games for language learning should be understood in the context of gaming and learning as both separate and interconnected processes. In this connection the mediating role of the teacher is particularly significant.

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  1. Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum Research, Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus,  

    Bente Meyer

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Adrian David Cheok

  3. Media Education and Visualization Group, University of Education, Leibnizstr. 3, 88250, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

  4. School of Computing and Information Systems. CIS, Athabasca University, 1 University Drive, T9S 3A3, Canada

    Maiga Chang

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Meyer, B. (2009). Learning English through Serious Games – Reflections on Teacher and Learner Performance. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Chang, M. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11245-4_8

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