ABSTRACT

This study investigates the video game play of a multiplayer first-person shooter, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, as part of an esports programme at a vocational school. The game environment is multilingual, and the focal participants are all Finnish-Swedish bilinguals who are proficient in English. The study focuses on the action of providing callouts, which are coordinated English words that refer to specific in-game locations and, when provided, point to opponents’ locations. The aim is to investigate how participants employ callouts as part of their in-game interaction and teamplay, and what they orient to as ‘callout competence’. With a greater understanding of the social organisation of the multilingual game environment and actions, such as callouts, we can better understand the affordances for collaborative and multilingual learning that games can provide for education. Callout competence appears to align with skills and knowledge that may be transferrable into the educational setting; that is, the components that are part of callout competence require collaborative skills and multilingual competence. These skills are part of what makes the teamwork work, as well as an inherent part of activities in an esports education programme that has broadened the classroom to encompass esports game play outside of the classrooms.

摘要

本研究调查了多人第一人称射击游戏 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 的视频游戏玩法，作为职业学校电子竞技项目的一部分。游戏环境是多语言的，重点参与者都是精通英语的芬兰-瑞典双语者。该研究侧重于提供标注的行为，标注是指代游戏中特定位置的协调英语单词，并在提供时指向对手的位置。目的是调查参与者如何将标注作为他们游戏内互动和团队合作的一部分，以及他们将什么定位为“标注能力”。对多语言游戏环境和动作的社会组织有更深入的了解，例如标注，我们可以更好地理解游戏可以为教育提供的协作和多语言学习的可供性。标注能力似乎与可转移到教育环境中的技能和知识相一致；也就是说，作为标注能力一部分的组件需要协作技能和多语言能力。这些技能是团队合作的一部分，也是电子竞技教育计划活动的固有组成部分，该计划扩大了课堂范围，涵盖了教室外的电子竞技游戏。