Eko G. Samudro, 2015 ONLINE VOCABULARY GAMES: POTENTIAL ENCHAN
CEMENTS OF STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACQUISITION
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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1.6 Clarification on main terms
There are several terms in this study that needs to be clarified. The definitions of the terms are explained below:
1.6.1 Online games: Online games refer to any type of game that
someone can play through the Internet or over a computer network. Most of the time, it refers to video games played over the Internet,
where multiple players are in different locations across the world. The online games used in this research are the online vocabulary
games which belong to Browser-Based games. Schurman, K. 2015. What is online gaming?. Retrieved from
http:www.wisegeek.comwhat-is-online-gaming.htm .
1.6.2 Online vocabulary games: These games refer to the Browser-Based
games that are played entirely within a web browser rather than through a video game console or other apparatus. This means that
the game can be played from many different types of computers and can often involve many different players at the same time. The
online vocabulary games used in this research are from www.eslgamesplus.com
and www.vocabulary.co.il
. Barnett, T. 2015 .What is a browser-based game?. Retrieved
from http:www.wisegeek.comwhat-is-a-browser-based-
game.htm .
1.6.3 Context: Context is any information that can be used to characterize
the situation of entities i.e. whether a person, place or object that are considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an
application, including the user and the application themselves. A.
a Dey G. Abowd. 2000. Towards a better understanding of
context and context-awareness. Proceedings of the Workshop on the What, Who, Where, When and How of Context-Awareness,
affiliated with the CHI 2000 Conf. on Human Factors in Computer Systems.
