Roadmap for the Development of EnLang4All: A Video Game for Learning English
Nowadays, people are more predisposed to being self-taught due to the availability of online information. With digitalization, information appears not only in its conventional state, as blogs, articles, newspapers, or e-books, but also in more interactive and enticing ways. Video games have become a...
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| description | Nowadays, people are more predisposed to being self-taught due to the availability of online information. With digitalization, information appears not only in its conventional state, as blogs, articles, newspapers, or e-books, but also in more interactive and enticing ways. Video games have become a transmission vehicle for information and knowledge, but they require specific treatment in respect of their presentation and the way in which users interact with them. This treatment includes usability guidelines and heuristics that provide video game properties that are favorable to a better user experience, conducive to captivating the user and to assimilating the content. In this research, usability guidelines and heuristics, complemented with recommendations from educational video game studies, were gathered and analyzed for application to a video game for English language learning called EnLang4All, which was also developed in the scope of this project and evaluated in terms of its reception by users. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dd06bd71dc044124aa7af8c1bf47642a2023-11-16T22:26:35ZengMDPI AGMultimodal Technologies and Interaction2414-40882023-02-01721710.3390/mti7020017Roadmap for the Development of EnLang4All: A Video Game for Learning EnglishIsabel Machado Alexandre0Pedro Faria Lopes1Cynthia Borges2Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), 1649-026 Lisboa, PortugalISTAR, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), 1649-026 Lisboa, PortugalInstituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), 1649-026 Lisboa, PortugalNowadays, people are more predisposed to being self-taught due to the availability of online information. With digitalization, information appears not only in its conventional state, as blogs, articles, newspapers, or e-books, but also in more interactive and enticing ways. Video games have become a transmission vehicle for information and knowledge, but they require specific treatment in respect of their presentation and the way in which users interact with them. This treatment includes usability guidelines and heuristics that provide video game properties that are favorable to a better user experience, conducive to captivating the user and to assimilating the content. In this research, usability guidelines and heuristics, complemented with recommendations from educational video game studies, were gathered and analyzed for application to a video game for English language learning called EnLang4All, which was also developed in the scope of this project and evaluated in terms of its reception by users.https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/7/2/17educationvideo gamesserious gamesEnglish languagelanguage learningsecond language |
| spellingShingle | Isabel Machado Alexandre Pedro Faria Lopes Cynthia Borges Roadmap for the Development of EnLang4All: A Video Game for Learning English Multimodal Technologies and Interaction education video games serious games English language language learning second language |
| title | Roadmap for the Development of EnLang4All: A Video Game for Learning English |
| title_full | Roadmap for the Development of EnLang4All: A Video Game for Learning English |
| title_fullStr | Roadmap for the Development of EnLang4All: A Video Game for Learning English |
| title_full_unstemmed | Roadmap for the Development of EnLang4All: A Video Game for Learning English |
| title_short | Roadmap for the Development of EnLang4All: A Video Game for Learning English |
| title_sort | roadmap for the development of enlang4all a video game for learning english |
| topic | education video games serious games English language language learning second language |
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