Educational Breakout as a Learning Strategy in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language
Educational Breakout as a Learning Strategy in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language
Author(s): Roxana GaițăSubject(s): Education, Higher Education
Published by: Weik Press SRL
Keywords: flipped learning; learning strategy; gamification; higher education; motivation
Summary/Abstract: Breakouts are learning strategies that can stimulate the motivation of learning through challenges. During an educational breakout session, students must work as a team and use their reasoning, knowledge, and skills to solve puzzles and challenges related to the content of the curriculum in a limited time. This study intends to examine the impact of educational breakouts on classroom flow, academic performance, motivation, behaviour, and overall satisfaction of the first-year students of Applied Modern Languages, West University of Timişoara. In performing this experiment quantitative and qualitative techniques were used and the results showed a significant improvement in classroom engagement, flow, the feeling of well-being, autonomy, and loss of the notion of time and support the conclusion that the use of educational breakout is fun and motivating for students and facilitates knowledge accumulation.
Journal: Research and Education
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 8
- Page Range: 5-21
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English