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ELT Journal 1988 42(4):247-252; doi:10.1093/elt/42.4.247
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Computer games and foreign-language vocabulary learning

Rolf Palmberg

Rolf Palmberg is Senior Lecturer in EFL Methodology at Åbo Akademi (Department of Teacher Education) in Finland, where he is responsible for teacher training at various levels. He has published reports and articles in the fields of applied linguistics and EFL methodology, and is co-author of a book containing communicative activities for learners of Swedish as a second language.

This article reports on the design and results of an experiment the aim of which was to test the effects of playing with computer games on the learning of English vocabulary by young, elementary-level, Swedish-speaking children. The article also discusses the role of computer games as teaching aids in the foreign-language classroom.


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