![]() ![]() ![]() Our results show a major difference between Swedish boys and girls as regards spending time “in English” at the computer outside of school. We wanted to see if this also was true for even younger learners, who had only learnt English in school for a little bit more than a year. In a previous study with 12-year-olds, we had seen that gaming was positively linked to English comprehension and vocabulary. ![]() The main purpose of the study was to investigate language-related computer use in English and Swedish, but also to look for possible correlations between computer gaming and a child’s motivation to learn, how good they felt there were at the language and the strategies they used to speak it. They also filled out a language diary over the course of a week, indicating how much time they spent doing activities such as reading books, watching TV, and playing computer games. ![]()
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