Adult EFL Learners Experiences On Playing Massively Multiplayer Online Role- Playing Games For English As A Foreign Language Learning

Abstract

This research aimed to describe the experiences adult EFL learners have of playing massively multiplayer online role-playing online games, can it make incidental learning or not. The data were collected by interviewing the participants. In conducting this study, the researcher used indirect interview as the method of the research. The data was analyzed by using thematic analysis. The findings of the research indicated that playing online games can make incidental English learning or not, both of participants said playing online games is not influential to make incidental learning English learning if we are playing online games without reading the instructions, so if we are not skip the instructions in the games, we can know English word that may not be known. The result of the interview showed that regardless of the number English vocabularies or English exposure in massive multiplayer games, yet it depends on the players themselves. It was whether the players wanted to learn English.