How Video Games Are Teaching English

Select the paragraph that shows why Alvaro Rodriguez enjoyed learning English from video games more than from school.

• When Alvaro Rodriguez was in kindergarten, he did not find school very interesting. After school, he would play video games. In his game, he would battle to save his kingdom.

• While playing his game, Rodriguez was also learning English.

• He said gaming engaged him when he did not find school interesting. The video games gave him language practice, he said.

• Rodriguez is one of 2.7 billion gamers around the world. Many of those gamers are learning English as they are playing, an unexpected result of a hobby often considered a waste of time.

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Which sentence from the section supports the conclusion that playing video games in a foreign language helps people learn that language more quickly?

• There are people all over the world using video games to teach themselves English, said Jonathon Reinhardt.

• "It's just far more popular and far more widespread than we realize," he said.

• Players who call themselves "serious gamers" increased after the spread of COVID-19, according to a study.

• The study found that those who played regularly outside school scored higher on English tests than students who did not.

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What effect did playing games in Korean have on Fiona Girotti?

• It helped her to understand Korean grammar.

• It made her want to travel to Korea.

• It helped her to understand her favorite Korean pop songs.

• It made her interested in music from Korea.

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According to the section "Gaming Community Has Grown Since COVID-19," HOW does playing English video games change how students learn English?

• It gives them a fun reason to use the language.

• It makes it easier for them to recognize words they already know.

• It helps them to connect new words with images of objects.

• It shows them how to properly pronounce the language.

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What does "instrument" mean in the following paragraph.

With video games, "all of a sudden English becomes an instrument; something that's very useful for them in order to progress in the game," said Signe Hannibal Jensen.

• a tool; something you use to make things easier

• Something you use to play music

• a challenge

• a device for measuring the present value of a quantity under observation.

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