Collaborative Game-play as a Site for Participation and Situated Learning of a Second Language

• Published in: Scandinavian journal of educational research Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 167 - 183
• Main Authors: Piirainen-Marsh, Arja, Tainio, Liisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.04.2009
• Subjects: Collaboration; computer and video games; Cooperation; Discourse Analysis; Interaction; interactional practices; Interpersonal Communication; Language Usage; Learning Strategies; Playing; Prosody; second language acquisition; Second Language Learning; Semiotics; Socialization; Suprasegmentals; Video Games; Vocabulary

This paper addresses additional language learning as rooted in participation in the social activity of collaborative game-play. Building on a social-interactional view of learning, it analyses some of the detailed practices through which players attend to a video game as the material and semiotic st...