Game-based Approaches to CALL
Edited by
Linda Carol Jones [+–]
University of Arkansas
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Linda Jones is Chair and Professor of Language Area Studies in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Arkansas. She served as the Director of the Language Learning Center for over 20 years and has published numerous research articles on language teaching and technology, in particular language learning and listening comprehension technologies in the Modern Languages Journal, the CALICO Journal, and in the online Language Learning and Technologies Journal. In recent years, Jones has taken a more digital humanities approach combining French Mississippi Cultural History and digital tools into both an open educational resource text as well as digital storytelling of Immigrant Arkansas history with colleagues in German and Italian.
David Frederick [+–]
University of Arkansas
An Associate Professor in Classical Studies, David Fredrick directed the Tesseract Center for Game Design at the University of Arkansas from 2014-2022 and currently teaches game design through the World Languages and Digital Humanities Studio. He has directed the development of award-winning video games and visualizations addressing Greek and Roman culture, architectural and art history, Italian language teaching, and Indigenous cultures. He has co-authored several NEH grants based on digital storytelling using the Unity game engine, and has significant publications on Roman poetry, spatial cognition and behavior in ancient Pompeii, and the representation of gender and sexuality in Roman art.
Curtis Maughan [+–]
University of Arkansas
Curtis Maughan is the Director of the World Languages and Digital Humanities (WLDH) Studio of the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (WLLC) at the University of Arkansas, where he oversees a robust event calendar that explores the pedagogical potential of digital technology for teaching world languages and cultures—including the “DH Meet-Up” and the “VR Classroom for Language Learning.” Having earned a PhD in German Studies with a focus on Game Studies and Game Design, Curtis pursues research that embodies the meaningful coalescence of humanist thought and emerging digital technologies. Recently, he has served as co-editor for two volumes of Game Studies scholarship: Violence | Perception | Video Games: New Directions in Game Research (transcript, 2019) and Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games: New Directions in Game Research II (transcript, 2022).
This volume features contributions that explore approaches to teaching world languages and cultures that are both computer-assisted and game-based. As the intersection of games and learning constitutes a pedagogical subgenre unto itself, this volume focuses on four elements of game design and game studies that will shape the future of not only the game industry, but of computer-assisted practices of all of kinds, especially CALL: Player/Student Agency: The Theory Defining the Future of Player/Student-Centered Design; Serious Games: The Genre Expanding the Pedagogical Potential of Game Design; eXtended Realities (XR) and A.I. Storytelling: The Technologies Shaping the Future of the Game-Based Classroom; and Multimedia Theories of Learning and Empirical Game-Based Research: Case Studies at the Intersection of CALL and Game Studies.
