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Word-y: Structure and content design of educational videogame to learn English as a L2

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2015
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Dra. Badilla-Quintana, María Graciela
Nourdin, Michelle
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Universidad de Chile
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The use of videogames in the educational area has taken a bigger role among kids, adolescents and adults, being considered a relevant element, leaving behind its playful look at leisure. Particularly in Chile, thanks to the integration of ICT, several tools like didactic presentation programs or mobile apps facilitate the teaching and learning process of a second language like English. The aim of this research is to describe the design of an educative videogame and to describe the validation process of the Word-y contents which are associated to learning vocabulary in English. The design has been developed using the incremental prototype model’ using the free version of Construct2 software. As projections, the future work implies improve the first prototype applying a content survey to 30 English teachers and educational informatics experts.
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Edutainment, Expert judgment, English as second language learning, Videogames
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