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The use of games in educational settings and for learning purposes is not a new phenomenon. Given the level of engagement that games generate for a wide range of people, as well as the types of individual and social activities they enable, proponents have argued that games are an ideal medium for learning. As a result, the concept of game-based learning is being introduced. The first drawback is that the scientific area on the effectiveness of using game-based learning in English language learning is too broad and requires more research and the study participants in the papers examined were in primary and secondary schools. The primary goal of this study was to examine students' perceptions of the effectiveness of using game-based learning to learn English for students in higher education. Hundreds of higher education students took part in this study, which used a mixed research method. The perceptions of students from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSK) were collected through a questionnaire, and three of them were interviewed. The findings of this study showed that higher students produced a range of conceptions about using games in learning English that were similar to those reported in the current literature. The outcomes of the research below have shown that most of the higher education students believe that game-based learning methods are effective in learning the English language and different from traditional or conventional methods.
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To Cite this Article: Jamaatthuddin, N. M., & Or-Kan, S. (2021). An Examination on the Students’ Perceptions towards the Effectiveness of Using Game-Based Learning in Learning the English Language for Students in Higher Education. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(8), 1689–1714.
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