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| Title |
Language Learning Enhanced by Massive Multiple Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and the Underlying Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00095 |
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| Authors |
Yongjun Zhang, Hongwen Song, Xiaoming Liu, Dinghong Tang, Yue-e Chen, Xiaochu Zhang |
| Abstract |
Massive Multiple Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) have increased in popularity among children, juveniles, and adults since MMORPGs' appearance in this digital age. MMORPGs can be applied to enhancing language learning, which is drawing researchers' attention from different fields and many studies have validated MMORPGs' positive effect on language learning. However, there are few studies on the underlying behavioral or neural mechanism of such effect. This paper reviews the educational application of the MMORPGs based on relevant macroscopic and microscopic studies, showing that gamers' overall language proficiency or some specific language skills can be enhanced by real-time online interaction with peers and game narratives or instructions embedded in the MMORPGs. Mechanisms underlying the educational assistant role of MMORPGs in second language learning are discussed from both behavioral and neural perspectives. We suggest that attentional bias makes gamers/learners allocate more cognitive resources toward task-related stimuli in a controlled or an automatic way. Moreover, with a moderating role played by activation of reward circuit, playing the MMORPGs may strengthen or increase functional connectivity from seed regions such as left anterior insular/frontal operculum (AI/FO) and visual word form area to other language-related brain areas. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 4 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Scientists | 2 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 125 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 124 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 7 | 6% |
| Professor | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 17 | 14% |
| Unknown | 53 | 42% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Linguistics | 18 | 14% |
| Psychology | 15 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 9% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 15 | 12% |
| Unknown | 57 | 46% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 July 2023.
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