Learning Heritage Language Through Serious Games in Migrant School-aged Children

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10.2991/assehr.k.211220.290How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Heritage language learning; migrant children; serious games; online games

Abstract

Heritage language (HL), also named home language that people are used to speak from home, has advantages in children’s development of cognition, academy, psychology and cultural identity. However, migrant children have been facing many challenges in maintaining their HL mainly due to lack of HL learning motivation, especially when they enroll in local schools. This study aims to examine the potential of applying serious games to improve HL learning among migrant children. This paper searches studies related to HL learning mainly in ProQuest database. Although recent studies show that serious games may be more effective in increasing children’s motivation in language learning compared to the traditional approaches such as in-school classes, only two studies aim to improve HL study among school-aged children by playing serious games are retrieved. One study indicates an improvement of HL literacy skill in the children after playing the educational games, while another has no evaluation of the game’s effectiveness. Therefore, the effectiveness of using serious games to promote HL learning in children are full of uncertainty so far. More serious games are needed to be developed and more studies that examining the game’s effectiveness in learning HL among school-aged children should be conducted.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shengjia Guan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Learning Heritage Language Through Serious Games in Migrant School-aged Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1715
EP  - 1721
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.290
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.290
ID  - Guan2021
ER  -