Can the students in an ESP course learn new vocabulary as they review and practice it by playing a computer game?
This paper explores the use of a computer game to enhance second-lan-guage learner’s knowledge of technical vocabulary in their field of study. The aim of the study is to prove that an effective educational tool for lear-ning vocabulary does not necessarily have to present the target words in contex...
| Autores Principales: | Chaves Carballo, Olga, Zamora Salazar, Eduardo |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
2021
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http://hdl.handle.net/11056/19514 |
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This paper explores the use of a computer game to enhance second-lan-guage learner’s knowledge of technical vocabulary in their field of study. The aim of the study is to prove that an effective educational tool for lear-ning vocabulary does not necessarily have to present the target words in context or in a communicative way. This tool is not only innovative and entertaining but it also unquestionably reinforces the internaliza-tion of target lexical items by means of rote learning. The participants were eight fifth-year students of the Nursing major at the Universidad de Costa Rica in 2004 who were taking English for Nurses. |
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