Jenglish: a game for ESL classroom / Siti Aishah Taib, Nadzrah Sa’adan, Nurul Izzati Mat Saberi, Nurul Aini Mat Suri and Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Kasbullah

Gamification is not a foreign concept of language learning, and it has been extensively researched in the field of education. Jenglish is a language game produced by five ESL students under the supervision of a lecturer. Leslie Scott's popular Jenga game was adapted into this game. This paper a...

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Main Authors: Taib, Siti Aishah, Sa’adan, Nadzrah, Mat Saberi, Nurul Izzati, Mat Suri, Nurul Aini, Kasbullah, Nurfarah ‘Aqilah
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spelling my.uitm.ir.1092782025-01-31T23:55:08Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/109278/ Jenglish: a game for ESL classroom / Siti Aishah Taib, Nadzrah Sa’adan, Nurul Izzati Mat Saberi, Nurul Aini Mat Suri and Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Kasbullah iij Taib, Siti Aishah Sa’adan, Nadzrah Mat Saberi, Nurul Izzati Mat Suri, Nurul Aini Kasbullah, Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Malaysia Gamification is not a foreign concept of language learning, and it has been extensively researched in the field of education. Jenglish is a language game produced by five ESL students under the supervision of a lecturer. Leslie Scott's popular Jenga game was adapted into this game. This paper aims to present the results of a case study in which a group of 22 ESL students participated in four ESL lessons while playing Jenglish. A set of questionnaires was distributed to the respondents of the study after the final lesson and they are expected to answer 3 research questions: 1) To investigate ESL students' opinions on the usefulness of Jenglish on ESL learning, 2) To investigate ESL students ' opinions on the usefulness of Jenglish in relation to affective domain, and 3) To investigate ESL students' opinions on how Jenglish can be improved. The data were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25 and thematic analysis. The first and second research questions received positive feedback, while the game's presentation, content, and rules were suggested for improvement. Four themes emerged from an open-ended question about the respondents ' opinions of the game which were Compliments, Suggestions to Improve the Game, Benefits, and Others. Although the results indicated that the game needed to be improved, it can be concluded that Jenglish was a useful language game for the respondents in language learning. Keywords: Gamification, language learning, language game, ESL learning UiTM Cawangan Johor 2021 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/109278/1/109278.pdf Jenglish: a game for ESL classroom / Siti Aishah Taib, Nadzrah Sa’adan, Nurul Izzati Mat Saberi, Nurul Aini Mat Suri and Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Kasbullah. (2021) Insight Journal (IJ) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Insight_Journal_=28IJ=29/>, 8. pp. 18-26. ISSN 2600-8564
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Taib, Siti Aishah
Sa’adan, Nadzrah
Mat Saberi, Nurul Izzati
Mat Suri, Nurul Aini
Kasbullah, Nurfarah ‘Aqilah
Jenglish: a game for ESL classroom / Siti Aishah Taib, Nadzrah Sa’adan, Nurul Izzati Mat Saberi, Nurul Aini Mat Suri and Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Kasbullah
description Gamification is not a foreign concept of language learning, and it has been extensively researched in the field of education. Jenglish is a language game produced by five ESL students under the supervision of a lecturer. Leslie Scott's popular Jenga game was adapted into this game. This paper aims to present the results of a case study in which a group of 22 ESL students participated in four ESL lessons while playing Jenglish. A set of questionnaires was distributed to the respondents of the study after the final lesson and they are expected to answer 3 research questions: 1) To investigate ESL students' opinions on the usefulness of Jenglish on ESL learning, 2) To investigate ESL students ' opinions on the usefulness of Jenglish in relation to affective domain, and 3) To investigate ESL students' opinions on how Jenglish can be improved. The data were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25 and thematic analysis. The first and second research questions received positive feedback, while the game's presentation, content, and rules were suggested for improvement. Four themes emerged from an open-ended question about the respondents ' opinions of the game which were Compliments, Suggestions to Improve the Game, Benefits, and Others. Although the results indicated that the game needed to be improved, it can be concluded that Jenglish was a useful language game for the respondents in language learning. Keywords: Gamification, language learning, language game, ESL learning
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author Taib, Siti Aishah
Sa’adan, Nadzrah
Mat Saberi, Nurul Izzati
Mat Suri, Nurul Aini
Kasbullah, Nurfarah ‘Aqilah
author_facet Taib, Siti Aishah
Sa’adan, Nadzrah
Mat Saberi, Nurul Izzati
Mat Suri, Nurul Aini
Kasbullah, Nurfarah ‘Aqilah
author_sort Taib, Siti Aishah
title Jenglish: a game for ESL classroom / Siti Aishah Taib, Nadzrah Sa’adan, Nurul Izzati Mat Saberi, Nurul Aini Mat Suri and Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Kasbullah
title_short Jenglish: a game for ESL classroom / Siti Aishah Taib, Nadzrah Sa’adan, Nurul Izzati Mat Saberi, Nurul Aini Mat Suri and Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Kasbullah
title_full Jenglish: a game for ESL classroom / Siti Aishah Taib, Nadzrah Sa’adan, Nurul Izzati Mat Saberi, Nurul Aini Mat Suri and Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Kasbullah
title_fullStr Jenglish: a game for ESL classroom / Siti Aishah Taib, Nadzrah Sa’adan, Nurul Izzati Mat Saberi, Nurul Aini Mat Suri and Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Kasbullah
title_full_unstemmed Jenglish: a game for ESL classroom / Siti Aishah Taib, Nadzrah Sa’adan, Nurul Izzati Mat Saberi, Nurul Aini Mat Suri and Nurfarah ‘Aqilah Kasbullah
title_sort jenglish: a game for esl classroom / siti aishah taib, nadzrah sa’adan, nurul izzati mat saberi, nurul aini mat suri and nurfarah ‘aqilah kasbullah
publisher UiTM Cawangan Johor
publishDate 2021
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/109278/1/109278.pdf
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