Can the students in an ESP course learn new vocabulary as they review and practice it by playing a computer game?

 

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Autores: Chaves Carballo, Olga, Zamora Salazar, Eduardo
Formato: artículo
Fecha de Publicación:2010
Descripción: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.
País:Repositorio UNA
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Repositorio UNA
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:null:11056/19514
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11056/19514
Palabra clave:JUEGOS CON COMPUTADOR
COMPUTER GAMES
ADQUISICIÓN DE SEGUNDO LENGUAJE
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
APRENDIZAJE
LEARNING
LENGUAJE
ENFERMERÍA
NURSING