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Incidental foreign language vocabulary acquisition from social network games

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: It is widely known that young people use social networks not only for sharing and communication purposes but also as means of entertainment and pleasure by playing various online games.Furthermore, there is a common belief among pedagogues that spending valuable amount of time on social networks to play online games can lead to negative academic, personal and social outcomes.However, the findings of this study based on survey conducted with 248 high school students reveal that social network games can also have pedagogical benefits.The results of this research have shown that students can incidentally learn an important number of foreign language words from popular online games on social networks.

Source: Journal of Human Sciences

Authors: Çetin, Yakup, Sözcü, Ömer Faruk, Kınay, Hüseyin

Institution: Fatih University

Language: English

Topic: Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1580168688

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Cites: 38

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10