Adult EFL Learners Experiences On Playing Massively Multiplayer Online Role- Playing Games For English As A Foreign Language Learning
Abstract
This research aimed to describe the experiences adult EFL learners have of playing massively
multiplayer online role-playing online games, can it make incidental learning or not. The data were
collected by interviewing the participants. In conducting this study, the researcher used indirect
interview as the method of the research. The data was analyzed by using thematic analysis. The
findings of the research indicated that playing online games can make incidental English learning
or not, both of participants said playing online games is not influential to make incidental learning
English learning if we are playing online games without reading the instructions, so if we are not
skip the instructions in the games, we can know English word that may not be known. The result of
the interview showed that regardless of the number English vocabularies or English exposure in
massive multiplayer games, yet it depends on the players themselves. It was whether the players
wanted to learn English.
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