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Study: Foreign gamers are better at English than non-gamers.
Kiyoris
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0346251X15000433
Basically, the study divided 80 Swedish students into 3 groups.
Gamers who play 5+ hours / week.
Gamers who play less than 5 hours / week.
Non-gamers.
The gamers did far better in English tests than non-gamers.
At that age, girls tend to be better at languages than boys.
But the gamer group playing 5+ hours / week, included only 1 girl, making the results even more surprising.
I can actually confirm this study, my English is excellent, but it's not my native tongue. It's mostly due to playing MMO.
Basically, the study divided 80 Swedish students into 3 groups.
Gamers who play 5+ hours / week.
Gamers who play less than 5 hours / week.
Non-gamers.
The gamers did far better in English tests than non-gamers.
At that age, girls tend to be better at languages than boys.
But the gamer group playing 5+ hours / week, included only 1 girl, making the results even more surprising.
I can actually confirm this study, my English is excellent, but it's not my native tongue. It's mostly due to playing MMO.
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The first foreign language I started to study was Swedish, but by the time I was finished with high school my English skills were far better than my Swedish skills despite having studied Swedish two years longer.
Heck i think EA Sport sit as the sole company that translates games to Swedish..
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The test is an odd result because most gamer's get brain dead tired before they decide to quit.
Just using the Hearthstone example,i can tell yo u that 90% of the time the streamer quits saying he /she is getting too tired to play and has begun playing badly because of it.I would also say gamer's might tend to get a lack of sleep which should not relate to better results.
The problem with these tests is that it is so easy to skew them with inaccurate results just from the people you picked.Someone else could pick a different 80 and get complete flip flopped results,it also matters what kind of English test/questions were asked.
I mean was every question using terms like Raiding and Experience and Boss and Loot etc etc lol.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
So people who normally won't venture to speak English in company will be typing furiously or talking in anger or trying to explain in all their unabashed glorious use of the language. If they ever listened to themselves speak they might cringe but in that moment they just want to make a point. Naturally your language skill improves as a result.
The girl was from New York and I always had to help her with her English homework because her spelling and grammar was.. well yeah..
Still amuses me even after all those years.
I have a friend on PoE I met while trading, he's Korean and he could hardly type proper sentences. Fast forward a few years, and he types it and understands it just as good as anybody else on there.
It makes me want to learn another language from gaming now. XD