沙特EFL学生在虚拟平台中的英语沟通态度：MMORPG研究

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本文是一篇关于沙特阿拉伯英语作为外语（EFL）学生在使用沙特阿拉伯最常见的虚拟平台——大型多人在线角色扮演游戏（MMORPGs）如Second Life中进行英语交流的研究论文。研究背景源自沙特阿拉伯家庭普遍拥有PlayStation或X-Box，每年市场购买量庞大，这使得MMORPG成为一种重要的交流工具。研究的主要目的是探索King Saud University - College of Languages & Translation (KSU-COLT)的沙特EFL学生沉浸于MMORPG的动机、这种沉浸式学习的积极和消极影响，以及他们在体验后的满意度。研究者针对两个关键问题进行了深入调查： 1. 动机与影响：研究揭示了推动沙特EFL学生进入MMORPG的因素，包括游戏中的互动性、社交需求、以及将英语应用于实际情境的机会。同时，调查也揭示了参与者对于这种沉浸式环境的不同看法，包括其对语言习得的促进作用和可能产生的挑战，如文化适应和时间管理问题。 2. 满意度评估：尽管存在争议和差异，但整体来看，学生们对MMORPG作为英语学习工具的满意度较高。他们在游戏中的交流经历帮助他们在实践英语口语和写作技巧方面得到了提升，同时也意识到技术辅助下的沉浸式学习对提高语言能力的有效性。通过分析数据和采访结果，论文提供了对沙特EFL学生在虚拟平台中进行英语沟通的实际态度和体验的深入洞察。这对于教育者和政策制定者来说，是一项有价值的信息，有助于更好地理解和利用现代技术来优化外语教学方法。未来的研究可以进一步探讨如何优化MMORPG和其他虚拟平台，使之在语言学习中发挥更大的潜力。

Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Vol.7. No. 4 December 2016

Saudi EFL Students' Attitudes towards Communicating Alqahtani

Arab World English Journal www.awej.org

ISSN: 2229-9327

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(SL), can be used as a highly responsive and motivating learning environment to deliver

university practicum courses if a solid framework of best-practice instructional design was

implemented. Specifically, thepaper investigated how a Project-Based Training Program in

Second Life supports the acquisition of competences constituting core requirements in the

Practicum Course taught in the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology at King

AbdualAziz University. The results of the study indicated a positive response to the

administration of this Training Program via SL on the part of thestudents as well as the

participating trainers.

Addoweesh et al (2014) have conducted a pilot study at King Saud University to

investigate the role of assessment in students’ learning from asynchronous online discussion. The

study adopted a qualitative methodology to gain an understanding of the students’ experiences.

Data were collected through: online and in-class observations, focus group and in-depth

interviews with the students. Two themes have emerged from the findings. Firstly, the

implications of the online environment: e.g. it offers equal opportunities, the quality of the

discussions, collaborative learning. Secondly, assessment: e.g. assessment criteria, summative

assessment and formative feedback from instructor.

Significance of the Study

This study investigates the attitudes of Saudi EFL undergraduate studentstowardsoral

communication in English while being immersed in virtual platforms (namely MMORPGs).

Many studies have shown the usefulness of technology integration in foreign language learning.

However, to the best of my knowledge,no studies in KSA have researched the attitudes of Saudi

EFL undergraduate students towardsoral communication in English while immersed in these

MMORPGs. Therefore, this study is significant because there is a need to assist such attitudes

towards one of the most innovative and widely-used virtual platforms that might help Saudi EFL

students in the College of Languages and Translation at King Saud University (Colt-KSU) to be

more successfully in their daily oral communication in English.

Again, these MMORPGs have rapidly spread in Saudi society in general and among the

Saudi teenagers in particular. In fact, there is an average of an X-box or play-station set almost in

every house in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, many Saudi families even take these sets with them

wherever they travel and hence increase their children's addiction to these MMORPGs. In the

summer holidays, many Saudi parents are confused how to entertain their children during these

long holidays. In a survey about how Saudi parents plan to entertain their children during their

vacation. Replies of a large proportion of them come to the favor of the latest online and video

games (‘abualeinin, 2010). He believes these MMORPGs have attracted a wide segment of

children, and teenagers even at a global level because of mainly their strong audio-visual effects

developed by a large number of creative developers and programmers in the production of these

interesting and exciting games(p. 56).

Therefore, this study may help to facilitate the general acceptance of these advanced

online platforms as a teaching aid to improve students' oral communication in English. More

specifically, the results of this study will, hopefully, encourage EFL language instructors to

consider deploying MMORPGs to reinforce their students' oral communicationrather than

relying only on class or lab-formal English communicationdrillings.

Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2898651

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