Serious video games in foreign language education
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2017
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Університет імені Альфреда Нобеля
Анотація
The article analyses the current tendencies of media integration into educational process. The
educational potential of serious video games in foreign languages teaching and learning is presented.
Pedagogical and practical challenges of serious video games’ application, among which are the issues of a
game choice, video games’ integration into curriculum, opportunities of the gameplay for foreign language
education, are discussed.
Опис
As we stated in our previous works, media competence is one of the
key competences that facilitate effective functioning in the contemporary society.
To develop media competence and to form media literacy means to be able to
consciously consume media texts of different genres, to understand individual media needs and
to express oneself personally and professionally via various media tools [11]. It is true that much
of what we do and how we communicate nowadays moved to the Web. We use social media to
get news updates, search for ideas, exchange photos, publish our thoughts, tell people where we
are and share experiences of all kinds.
It is also true that N-Generation of today’s students is growing up in networked and interactive
media world, high-speed information acquisition, graphics, instant rewards and multi-tasking.
As such, they favor expression through producing (rather than simply consuming) a content,
collaborative problem-solving over individual approaches, shaping the flow of the peer-to-peer
activities’ results, as opposed to more passive audience relationships to one-way information
flows. Their media knowledge is described in terms of the new media literacies and a participatory
culture, built around social skills, civic engagement, informal mentorship where what is known by
the most experienced is passed along to novices, where members believe that their contributions
matter, where participants feel some degree of social connection with one another [5].
With the more increasing convergence between media forms and the improved gaming
ability of everyday mobile devices, video games and edutainment are gradually taking their
rightful place in everyday classrooms. Serious video games – computer based games with a
primary purpose other than solely entertainment – are not an exemption.
Ключові слова
media competence, digital game-based learning, serious video games, foreign languages teaching and learning, educational characteristics of serious video games, genre of a video game.