Synergistic nature of digital game-based language learning and Task-based language teaching

Task-based language teaching is a prominent advance in the science of second language acquisition, it suggests the way of learning by doing meaningful activities that we do in our real life situations. Task-based language teaching scholars assert that traditional language excercises and artificial contexts that are sprout out of the mind of an author or authors will not provide a fruitful environment for language learning and what we need to have an effective language learning is a meaningfl and graded collection of tasks to be done by learners. Serious games tend to provide opportunities for Task-based language teaching, synergetic coexistence of digital game based language learning, task-based language learning and learning by doing has been studied in this paper, considering the affordances that are brought by implementing a well designed game .

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task-based language teaching , DGBLL , digital game-based language learning , learning by doing , immersive environments