Efficacy of Usage of Digital Game on Key Competencies among Prospective Chinese Language Teachers

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10.2991/978-94-6463-040-4_183How to use a DOI?

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Usage of digital game; efficacy; key competencies; new media literacy; critical thinking disposition

Abstract

As a new media, digital games are playing a more and more important role in intelligent education. However, few attempts have been made to investigate efficacy of usage of digital game on key competencies of students in the 21st century in higher education. The objective of the study was to determine efficacy of the usage of digital game on key competencies through new media literacy and critical thinking disposition. A cross-sectional survey conducted by convenience sampling, was adopted involving 159 prospective Chinese language teachers of Leshan Normal University in Southwest China. The research was based on frameworks of Jenkins et al.’s 12 new media literacy skills and Delphi consensus’s 7 critical thinking disposition. Structured questionnaire was employed for data collection and one-way MANOVA and a series of one-way ANOVA, Post-Hoc Compare were operated for the data analysis. The findings of this study showed that usage of digital game have significant moderate efficacy on appropriation, inquisitiveness and significant small efficacy on performance, multitasking out of sub dimensions of new media literacy and critical thinking disposition. Accordingly, this study has made it clear in which aspects and to what extent digital games play an important role in key competencies among prospective Chinese language teachers.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xianfeng Li
AU  - Jinyan Fu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/27
TI  - Efficacy of Usage of Digital Game on Key Competencies among Prospective Chinese Language Teachers
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education (IC-ICAIE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1229
EP  - 1236
SN  - 2589-4900
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-040-4_183
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-040-4_183
ID  - Li2022
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