Acquisition of Japanese as a Foreign Language through a Baseball Video Game

Autor/in	deHaan, Jonathan William
Titel	Acquisition of Japanese as a Foreign Language through a Baseball Video Game
Quelle	In: Foreign Language Annals, 38 (2005) 2, S.278-282 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0015-718X
Schlagwörter	Video Games; Second Language Learning; Listening Comprehension; Student Improvement; Japanese + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Hörverständnis; Japaner; Japanisch
Abstract	Video games have become increasingly more popular and more technologically advanced. This one-month study used interview, observation, self-report, and reading and listening test data to demonstrate and investigate how one intermediate Japanese-as-a-foreign-language (JFL) student improved his listening comprehension and kanji character recognition by playing a Japanese baseball video game. It is suggested that language acquisition was facilitated by the subject's ability to control the video game's repetitive, highly contextualized, and simultaneously presented aural and textual language. Limitations of the study and implications for the foreign language teacher are briefly discussed. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 700 S. Washington Street Ste. 210, Alexandria, VA 22314. Tel: 703-894-2900; Fax: 703-894-2905; e-mail: headquarters@actfl.org; Web site: http://www.actfl.org.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10