Digital Games in Language Learning and Teaching

JUDITH BUNDGENS-KOSTEN works at the Department of Educational Media and Knowledge Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, GermanyALICE CHIK Chik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong KongKYLE DEMPSEY is an Instructor of Statistics at Mississippi University for Women, USAMICHAEL FILSECKER works at the Department of Educational Media and Knowledge Management at Duisburg-Essen University, GermanyMARGARET FRANKEN is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato, JapanJAMES PAUL GEE is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, USATANNER JACKSON is an Assistant Research Professor within the Learning Sciences Institute at Arizona State University, USADANIELLE MCNAMARA is a Professor in the Psychology Department and Senior Scientist in the Learning Sciences Institute at Arizona State University, USAMARK PETERSON is an Associate Professor in theGraduate School of Human and Environmental Studies Kyoto University, JapanROBERT REICHLE is an Assistant Professor of French linguistics at Northern Illinois University, USAJON REINHARDT is Assistant Professor of English Language/Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA and Co-Director, with Julie Sykes, of the Games to Teach Project at the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and LiteracyPIA SUNDQVIST is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Education (English) at Karlstad University, SwedenJULIE SYKES is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico, USALISS KERSTIN SYLVEN is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education and Special Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden MICHAEL THOMAS is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UKSORADA WATTANA is a Lecturer at Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, ThailandH. WITTEN is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand SHAOQUN WU is currently doing postdoctoral research in the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand

• Foreword; J.P.Gee Introduction; H.Reinders PART I: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE Contextualising Digital Game-based Language Learning: Transformational Paradigm Shift or Business as Usual?; M.Thomas Conceptualizing Digital game-mediated L2 Learning and Pedagogy: Game-enhanced and Game-based Research and Practice; J.Reinhardt & J.Sykes Behaviorism, Constructivism, and Communities of Practice: How Pedagogic Theories help us Understand Game-based Language Learning; M.Filsecker Language Learner Interaction in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG); M.Peterson PART II: FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY Digital Gameplay for Autonomous Foreign Language Learning: Gamers and Language Teachers' Perspectives; A.Chik Game-based Practice in a Reading Strategy Tutoring System: Showdown in iSTART-ME; T.Jackson , K.Dempsey & D.McNamara Sprites and Rules: What ERPs and Procedural Memory can tell us about Video Games and Language Learning; R.Reichle Talk to me! Games and Students' Willingness to Communicate; H.Reinders & S.Wattana World of VocCraft: Computer Games and Swedish learners' L2 English Vocabulary; P.Sundqvist & K.Sylven Collocation Games from a Language Corpus; S.Wu , M.Franken & H.Witten