Game On! Fostering Speaking and Vocabulary While Cracking Up in the Classroom (81673)
Session Chair: Ricardo Elizalde
Sunday, 14 July 2024 13:55
Session: Session 3
Room: B09 (Basement)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The 21st century has presented a dual challenge in the EFL classroom: fostering collaboration skills and achieving linguistic competence. Encouraging and motivate students in collaborative learning tasks through effective strategies remains a never- ending teaching and learning concern. Within the EFL Chilean contexts, it is highly likely to find traditional grammar-focused lectures, incredibly demotivated students and teachers ́pedagogical relactancy to be uptodate in new teaching methodologies as: Gamification. For this research, a sample of 30 high school students was taking into account so as to administer a questionnaire to gather qualitative data. Therefore, this research proposal attempts to address these challenges by developing collaborattion skills in the EFL classroom through two gamified sets of roles games. One set focuses on lexicon development, whereas the other game seeks for speaking proficiency. Both sets apply and put into practice gamification principles as the core for scaffolding and building a collaborative learning environment in Chilean EFL classrooms. The findings underscore that students were willing and eager to participate in every pedagogical game as they learnt vocabulary and speak without nervousness in end-term international examinations.
Authors:
Ricardo Elizalde, Colegio Puerto Varas, Chile
Maria Soledad Yermany, San Sebastian University, Chile
About the Presenter(s)
Professor Ricardo Elizalde is a School Teacher/Instructor at Colegio Puerto Varas in Chile
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