Autor según el artículo: Nadia Azzouzz, Mar Gutiérrez-Colón Plana

Departamento: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys

Autor/es de la URV: Gutiérrez-Colon Plana, Maria del Mar

Resumen: This paper focuses on a fairly new motivational technique, the so-called Gamification, which consists of introducing game mechanics in non-game environments to promote motivation and engagement. By the turn of the 21rst century, Gamification took off in the business field and soon after became an attractive concept for researchers and professionals in education as it appears to be an increasingly popular method to motivate learners. Nevertheless, it is still a nascent field in terms of empirical evidence available to firmly support its educational benefits. This paper intends to shed some more light on this topic through a comprehensive review of literature published in the most prominent journals. The present study is framed within the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in higher education and Computer-Assisted Language Learning, and focuses on the effects of gamified learning environments on student’s motivation and learning. A Meta-analysis method was used to explore relevant empirical research published between 2011 and 2019. After reviewing a corpus of 68  papers drawn from the leading databases Scopus and Web Of Science, and from which only 15 could be included in the study, we can point out two main findings: (i) there is still very limited literature in the field of SLA and, (ii) results seem to be predominantly positive in terms of motivation and engagement but only a few studies confirm clear interconnections with learning outcomes. The results suggest a lack of solid correlations between Gamification, motivation and cognitive processes. 

Áreas temáticas: Linguistics Filologías Educació

ISSN: 16952618

Direcció de correo del autor: mar.gutierrezcolon@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-8479-4933

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-04-29

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/eurocall/article/view/12974

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Eurocall Review. 28 (1): 40-56

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Nadia Azzouzz, Mar Gutiérrez-Colón Plana (2020). Effect of Gamification on students’ motivation and learning achievement in Second Language Acquisition within higher education: a literature review 2011-2019. Eurocall Review, 28(1), 40-56

DOI del artículo: 10.4995/eurocall.2020.12974

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2020

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications