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ENHANCING LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE AND MOTIVATION: A LANGUAGE LEARNING WITH INTERACTIVE FICTION THROUGH VIDEO GAMES MEETS LITERATURE : COMPUTER- ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL)

Games are today an important part of most students’ leisure lives and increasingly an important part of our culture as a whole. The evolution of language teaching approaches and advances in technology have brought with them changes in how and where languages are learned. One way in which language can be practiced in a highly empowering and engaging way is through digital game-based learning. Interactive Fiction is a text-based genre of video game which blends literature and puzzle-solving in a simulated world where the player becomes the protagonist of a narrative and controls the actions, seeing the world through the eyes. Interactive Fiction games respond to natural language input in a meaningful way, making them a unique form of non-linear participatory story-telling. Being both a digital game and a form of electronic literature, playing or reading Interactive Fiction can provide an extremely motivating, engaging and creative language learning experience, implementing all four language skills and many cognitive processes – both in and beyond the classroom.

Daw Phyo Yadanar Hlaing was born in 1984 in Myanmar. She received the M.A(ESP) degrees from the Yangon Technological University in 2009. She worked as a teacher at the Technological Universities since 2005. She is currently a lecturer at West Yangon Technological University, Myanmar.