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By surveying and presenting research in the field, Chapter 5 explores the relationship between games and L2 learning. It first presents several perspectives on SLA and infers how they would conceptualize gameful L2TL and literacies development. To balance this deductive approach, it then surveys research according to affordances, or potentials for L2 learning, associated with eight particular mechanics or qualities: contextualization, time, sheltered space, goal orientation and feedback, languaging, identity, time and place (in)dependence, and extramural, autonomous learning. Discussion of each is followed by implications and ideas for future research.
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For comprehensive overviews of research, see Lai, Ni, and Zhao (2012), Peterson (2013), Reinhardt and Thorne (2016), Peterson (2016), Reinders (2017), and Reinhardt (2017).
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Reinhardt, J. (2019). Gameful L2 Learning. In: Gameful Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. New Language Learning and Teaching Environments. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04729-0_5
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