Full Description
Featuring #TeamLaV from the Literacies in Second Languages Project.
This volume documents how gamers use second languages in games and gaming communities, and how gaming interacts with literacy and language learning.
Grounded in an innovative longitudinal research study involving gamers not only as participants but as active researchers, this book offers insights into the new interactions that arise from gaming and language learning and addresses the needs for English learning in the context of video games. Exploring the roles of meaning-making and experiences across genres, this volume offers an original window into the essential and overlooked role that gaming can play in second language learning.
It is essential reading for researchers and scholars in literacy, TESOL, applied linguistics, and technology education.
Contents
Prologue Acknowledgments List of Contributors Editor and Contributor Bios Reading Quests, or Four Possible Ways to Read this Volume Foreword: Toward Victorious Futures Preface Act I: The LaV Project 1. #TeamLaV's Origins and Our Idea of Gamer 2. The LaV Framework 3. Our Design, Gamified Act II: LaV as (Re)Conceptualizing Language 4. The Linguistic Dimension of LaV 5. The Semiotic Dimension of LaV 6. The Aesthetic Dimension of LaV Act III: LaV as (Re)Contextualizing Victory 7. The Identity Dimension of LaV 8. LaV and Gamers as Second-Language Users 9. LaV and the Lives of Our Gamer-Researchers, Round 1: The World Warriors 10. LaV and the Lives of Our Gamer-Researchers, Round 2: The New Challengers Act IV: LaV as an Expanding Framework 11. The Missing Link: LaV as a Multiverse Gaming Framework 12. LaV and Gamers as Second-Language Teachers: The LaV Gamification Initiative 13. A Transcendent Approach to LaV: LaV Beyond Epilogue 14. Conclusion: LaV as Evolution, Communication, and Adaptation Afterword: "We Play Together, We Win Together, We Die Together—#TeamLaV 4 Life"
