| dc.description.abstract | This study focuses on learners' oral participation during an educational escape room. The research will focus on how the pupils in 6th grade participate orally in English, during an educational escape room. Escape rooms are live-action team-based games that focus on problem-solving and collaboration. The oral language is therefore an important tool of communication during an escape room. Oral skills, as part of the four basic skills, are very important when we are communicating and learning a new language, and the escape room format provides an opportunity for language use in authentic situations, as the National curriculum suggests. The participants in this study are nine 6th graders, organized into three groups with three learners in each group. In this qualitative study three data elicitation tools were used: field notes and audio recording of an educational escape room and focus group interviews. The finding suggested that the learners had a high level of oral participation, and English was the main language used. Communication and cooperation were important and necessary to successfully complete the tasks, and these were also seen in high degree. Furthermore, four out of six learners reported language learning, when using English in spontaneous conversations. Therefore, these results are promising when it comes to the application of escape rooms in the EFL classrooms. | |
