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Professionalization tools: impact of the game-based website ‘Check your Smile’ on specialized terminology acquisition

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Computer assisted vocabulary learning, i.e. specialized terminology acquisition, is a major tool to learning Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) necessary to students’ professionalization. One current area of research is digital game-based language learning because of its motivating qualities. This paper discusses electronics students’ acquisition of specific vocabulary as related to the free game-based collaborative platform Check Your Smile (CYS), which is entirely devoted to learning LSP terminology. CYS aggregates various types of games that automatically generate individualized game plays, drawing upon a collaboratively constructed multilingual dictionary. The study focuses on multiple variables including attending a selective engineering course taught in English and the language used to teach the mandatory electronics class. Empirical data shows that students having used CYS tend to obtain better vocabulary test scores than students who did not.
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Nadia Yassine-Diab, Laura M Hartwell, Sébastien Dejean. Professionalization tools: impact of the game-based website ‘Check your Smile’ on specialized terminology acquisition. CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021, 2021, 1, pp.302-306. ⟨10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1350⟩. ⟨hal-04086562⟩
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