This edited volume explores how digital games have the potential to engage learners both within and outside the classroom and to encourage interaction in the target language. This is the first dedicated collection of papers to bring together state-of-the-art research in game-based learning.

Foreword; J.P.Gee Introduction; H.Reinders PART I: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE Contextualising Digital Game-based Language Learning: Transformational Paradigm Shift or Business as Usual?; M.Thomas Conceptualizing Digital game-mediated L2 Learning and Pedagogy: Game-enhanced and Game-based Research and Practice; J.Reinhardt & J.Sykes Behaviorism, Constructivism, and Communities of Practice: How Pedagogic Theories help us Understand Game-based Language Learning; M.Filsecker Language Learner Interaction in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG); M.Peterson PART II: FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY Digital Gameplay for Autonomous Foreign Language Learning: Gamers and Language Teachers' Perspectives; A.Chik Game-based Practice in a Reading Strategy Tutoring System: Showdown in iSTART-ME; T.Jackson , K.Dempsey & D.McNamara Sprites and Rules: What ERPs and Procedural Memory can tell us about Video Games and Language Learning; R.Reichle Talk to me! Games and Students' Willingness to Communicate; H.Reinders & S.Wattana World of VocCraft: Computer Games and Swedish learners' L2 English Vocabulary; P.Sundqvist & K.Sylven Collocation Games from a Language Corpus; S.Wu , M.Franken & H.Witten

JUDITH BUNDGENS-KOSTEN works at the Department of Educational Media and Knowledge Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
ALICE CHIK Chik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong
KYLE DEMPSEY is an Instructor of Statistics at Mississippi University for Women, USA
MICHAEL FILSECKER works at the Department of Educational Media and Knowledge Management at Duisburg-Essen University, Germany
MARGARET FRANKEN is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato, Japan
JAMES PAUL GEE is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, USA
TANNER JACKSON is an Assistant Research Professor within the Learning Sciences Institute at Arizona State University, USA
DANIELLE MCNAMARA is a Professor in the Psychology Department and Senior Scientist in the Learning Sciences Institute at Arizona State University, USA
MARK PETERSON is an Associate Professor in theGraduate School of Human and Environmental Studies Kyoto University, Japan
ROBERT REICHLE is an Assistant Professor of French linguistics at Northern Illinois University, USA
JON REINHARDT is Assistant Professor of English Language/Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA and Co-Director, with Julie Sykes, of the Games to Teach Project at the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy
PIA SUNDQVIST is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Education (English) at Karlstad University, Sweden
JULIE SYKES is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico, USA
LISS KERSTIN SYLVEN is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education and Special Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
MICHAEL THOMAS is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK
SORADA WATTANA is a Lecturer at Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand
H. WITTEN is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand
SHAOQUN WU is currently doing postdoctoral research in the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand