Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Assistan Professor, Foreign Languages Dept., Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
With the advancement of educational technologies, game-based learning has emerged as a branch for learning growth and has attracted the attention of language learners, teachers, and researchers. Studying or designing digital games with the purpose of language learning has become a special research field and is called "Digital Game- Based Language Learning" (DGBLL). In this article, with the aim of studying the relationship between educational facilities in digital games and learning foreign languages, while reviewing the new research conducted on the effect of digital games on language learning, the types of digital games identified based on language learning are reviewed. Also, some theories of language learning and how to use them in learning based on digital games are studied. Then the results of the researches and the recommendations given by the researchers for the design of this type of games on language learning are examined. In this article, the following topics have been studied: 1-Theoretical dimensions of language learning based on digital games, 2-Findings of the effect of digital games on language learning, 3-Suggestions provided by researchers for more appropriate design of digital games based on language learning. This study helps language teachers and learners to use digital games for language teaching and learning. Also, this study can be a background and inspiration for native digital game designers to design games with a foreign language learning approach, and it shows in what aspects the theoretical topics of learning can help to design and implement games for language learning.
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