Motivation and learning through peer group and collaborative games

Motivación y aprendizaje mediado con actividades y juegos colaborativos en grupo

This research is based on the planning, development and analysis of specific activities within the context of a teaching unit in English as a Foreign Language. The commented teaching unit was planned following the task-based approach, a methodology that concludes every unit with a set of activities that reviews all the aspects that have been worked. The results of two specific and collaborative activities were analysed and studied in terms of students’ motivation towards the learning process together with the positive consequences in the acquisition of the language and the contents. Specifically, one of these activities was planned as a collaborative and semi-controlled game that led way to the study of the roles of competitiveness and peer group and their respective didactic potentialities. On the other hand, the second activity under consideration in this research was the set of final activities in the unit, known as the final task, and that contained a series of collaborative activities that have a big relevance in the present study.

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