Contribuições e desafios da gamificação no ensino de línguas : uma revisão de escopo na literatura internacional

Abstract

The learning of additional languages, nowadays, is increasingly intertwined with technological means. Thus, gamification, although not restricted to technological issues, given the popularization of mobile devices, emerges in the educational scenario as a possibility to motivate and engage students of different languages through different platforms. Thus, this research aims to report, from a scoping review, the contributions and possible challenges of gamification for language teaching in international research, based on articles published between the years 2014 and 2021 indexed in the Web of Science database. From the 65 articles analyzed, the following results were obtained: vocabulary and grammar are the most prevalent aspects in the gamification proposals analyzed, in addition to the use of commercial platforms for this purpose; there is a strong relationship between gamification and motivation guided in the research produced and also, a large number of papers point out the relationship between gamification and learning in the research analyzed. In conclusion, the need for further research in this field is reinforced, especially the development of local platforms and the diversification of research focused on the learning of several languages, since English is the most researched language.