Gamified Assessment of Business English: Learning and Testing Business Idioms and Collocations via Digital Escape Rooms
Gamified Assessment of Business English: Learning and Testing Business Idioms and Collocations via Digital Escape Rooms

Summary/Abstract: Business English teaching and learning requires customised assessment mechanisms, perhaps even more so in the current digital format, as digitally native learners call for a complex array of expectations in terms of language usability. Gamified learning experiences can serve as multifunctional instruments of blending formative assessment and entertainment along learning sequences, engaging learners in an enriching challenge that both motivates them in the pursuit of language skills and grants them autonomy in collaborative tasks. Learners’ use of idioms and collocations in the Business English framework can be tailored through digital breakout room tasks, which allow for a mechanism of formative assessment and interactive learning in a creative instructional format. The gamified filter serves the purpose of enabling students to self-test their Business English skills in problem-solving digital scenarios, while at the same time, extending the teachers’ assessment role towards a more entertaining format. The opportunities and challenges of having to break out of digital escape rooms, particularly using idioms and specific phrases in vocabulary and speaking-based tasks, can pave the way to more engaging learning methods.

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