Exploring the effectiveness of gaming as an extramural activity for L2 incidental vocabulary acquisition

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This project examines, for the first time, the effectiveness of leisure gaming for the incidental acquisition of vocabulary in a second language. Firstly, the features of the vocabulary that occurs in popular games is analysed using corpus linguistics. Then, to investigate vocabulary gains, an experimental pretest-posttests design is adopted. Participants complete a series of quests in a suitable game guided by previously explored in-game lexical profiles. Finally, the project statistically examines the effect of various factors that have been suggested to influence incidental word learning on participants' vocabulary gains and retention.