Out-of-school digital gameplay and in-school L2 English vocabulary outcomes

Sundqvist, Pia; Wikström, Peter

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Out-of-school digital gameplay and in-school L2 English vocabulary outcomes

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Fredrik produced 22 polysyllabic tokens and 11 own polysyllabic types in his essay (Grade B), which was on par with or better than the mean for the highest scoring same-age students on a comparable essay task in a previous study (Sundqvist & Wikström, 2015).
“Fredrik produced 22 polysyllabic tokens and 11 own polysyllabic types in his essay (Grade B), which was on par with or better than the mean for the highest scoring same-age students on a comparable essay task in a previous study (Sundqvist & Wikström, 2015).”
From Commercial-off-the-shelf games in the digital wild and L2 learner vocabulary (2019) · cites this paper as Sundqvist & Wikström, 2015
The results about the relation between time spent on playing COTS games in the digital wild and L2 English vocabulary largely corroborate previous research (e.g., Hannibal Jensen, 2017; Sundqvist & Wikström, 2015).
“The results about the relation between time spent on playing COTS games in the digital wild and L2 English vocabulary largely corroborate previous research (e.g., Hannibal Jensen, 2017; Sundqvist & Wikström, 2015).”
From Commercial-off-the-shelf games in the digital wild and L2 learner vocabulary (2019) · cites this paper as Sundqvist & Wikström, 2015
This finding neither concurs with the results of other research demonstrating the facilitative effects of gaming on foreign language achievement (e.g., Ref. [63,64]), nor with the results showing that exam grades are negatively correlated with gaming frequency [28,29].
“This finding neither concurs with the results of other research demonstrating the facilitative effects of gaming on foreign language achievement (e.g., Ref. [63,64]), nor with the results showing that exam grades are negatively correlated with gaming frequency [28,29].”
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Authors: Sundqvist, P., & Wikström, P.
Affiliations: Karlstad University (SE)
Corresponding author: Sundqvist, Pia
ORCID: Sundqvist, Pia
Wikström, Peter
Venue: System
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2015-07
Volume: 51
Pages: 65-76
ISSN: 0346-251X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2015.04.001
OpenAlex: W1954858986
Cited by: 256
References: 68
Citations by year: 2026: 16 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 1
FWCI: 32.84
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: System (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Games and Media
Keywords: video games, second language vocabulary, L2 English, English as a foreign language, academic performance, essay writing, vocabulary assessment, gender differences, adolescent students, Swedish learners of English

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