🏦 Volumes by date

• LLPx Symposium 2025 Post Conference Publication
• Volume 1 Archive
• Volume 2 Archive
• Volume 3 Archive
• Volume 4 Archive
• Volume 5 Archive
• Volume 6 Archive
• Volume 7 Archive
• Volume 8 Archive

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All published papers by type

📔 Articles

• deHaan, J. (2019). Teaching language and literacy with games: What? How? Why?

  Published: 18 Sep 2019

• Jones, D. M. (2020). Games in the language learning classroom: Is the juice worth the squeeze?

  Published: 05 Feb 2020

• deHaan, J. (2020). Game-based language teaching is vaporware (Part 1 of 2): Examination of research reports

  Published: 22 Jul 2020

• deHaan, J. (2020). Game-based language teaching is vaporware (Part 2 of 2): It’s time to ship or shut down

  Published: 22 Jul 2020

• York, J. (2020). Pedagogical considerations for teaching with games: Improving oral proficiency with self-transcription, task repetition, and online video analysis

  Published: 20 Oct 2020

• Bacalja, A. (2023). Digital game literacies and school learning: A sociocultural perspective

  Published: 22 Feb 2023

• Schneider, C. (2023). On the similarities of slaying dragons and ordering food

  Published: 22 Feb 2023

• Bacalja, A., Nash, B., Clutton M., De Kruiff, J., & White, B. (2024). Designing Game-Centred Curricula: A Critical Inquiry

  Published: 01 Feb 2024

• Vegel, A. & Hill, R. (2024). Small talk strategies card game for English language learners: Development and future directions

  Published: 25 Jun 2024

• Reid, R. (2024). An investigation of the language learning opportunities in collaborative dialogues during tabletop game play

  Published: 05 Nov 2024

• Raza, F. & Asad, A. (2025). Designing game-based L2 courses for university-level learners

  Published: 17 Feb 2025

• Poole, F. (2025). A systematic review of board games used in language learning contexts

  Published: 21 May 2025

🚶‍♂️ Walkthroughs

• York, J. (2019). “Kotoba Rollers” walkthrough: Board games, TBLT, and player progression in a university EFL classroom

  Published: 23 Oct 2019

• deHaan, J. (2020). “Game Terakoya class 1” walkthrough: Directing students’ post-game discussions, academic work and participatory work through goals, curriculum, materials and interactions

  Published: 17 Apr 2020

• Bradford, C.C., Brown, V., El Houari, M., Trakis, J. M., Weber, J. A., & Buendgens-Kosten, J. (2021). English Escape! Using breakout games in the intermediate to advanced EFL classroom

  Published: 08 Feb 2021

• Spano, F. (2021). How I taught with a game in junior high school EFL classes

  Published: 13 Aug 2021

• Reed, J. (2022). “This class doesn’t have a textbook?”: An overview of a TRPG course for L2 English learners in Japan

  Published: 06 Sep 2022

• Al-Khanfar, S. (2023). Teaching Spanish with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

  Published: 26 Mar 2023

• van der Velden, M. (2024). Cambridge Linguaskill preparation: teaching "open cloze" questions with ludic activities

  Published: 09 Apr 2024

• Smith, E. (2024). Dungeons and Dragons meet PowerPoint: an interactive ICT tabletop experience for EFL learners

  Published: 03 Aug 2024

🏞 Playgrounds

• Teaching English communication skills with Captain Sonar

  Published: 28 Mar 2020

• Jidoukan Jenga: Teaching English through remixing games and game rules

  Published: 13 Apr 2020

• 10 great classroom activities language teachers can do with games (in addition to helping students speak while playing!)

  Published: 08 May 2020

• Exploring authentic language use in the classroom

  Published: 13 May 2020

• Leveling up: A teacher’s personal journey of bringing video games into a school and classroom

  Published: 31 May 2020

• Are you bigger than an Xbox?: ‘20 Questions’ used in a class delivered via video conferencing

  Published: 07 Jun 2020

• It's your mooooove: Why teaching with games should be like ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ (and not nightcore)

  Published: 24 Jun 2020

• Language and literacy teaching with games: the “who” and transformative actions

  Published: 26 Aug 2020

• Social learning and literacy affordances in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

  Published: 02 Sep 2020

• Entwining Bridging Activities, the EEE framework, and Coup in a 6th grade advanced EFL writing class

  Published: 08 Sep 2020

• York, J. (2020). 👩‍🚀 How to teach languages with “Among Us”

  Published: 25 Oct 2020

• McFadyen, N. (2020). Games and literacy: Remixes in asynchronous time

  Published: 25 Oct 2020

• York, J. & deHaan J. (2021). Ludic Language Pedagogy is MMM … way more delicious than digital game-based language learning

  Published: 28 Feb 2021

• Furusawa, K., Yoshida, H. (2021) How we developed both inside and outside a “games and multiliteracies” seminar: A comparison of a society-focused journey and a self-focused journey

  Published: 15 Mar 2021

• Kneoh, J. W. T. & Miura, S. (2021) Teaching students English idioms through a memory game

  Published: 20 Apr 2021

• Poole, F. (2021) Co-Management: A Ludic Language Pedagogical Approach

  Published: 27 Apr 2021

• York, J. (2021) Creating playgrounds in online teaching spaces: Kanami and Nene’s “hero journeys”

  Published: 14 May 2021

• Johnson, P. (2021) Playtesting tabletop roleplaying with first and second year Korean EFL university students

  Published: 14 May 2021

• deHaan, J. (2021) Can making art lead to making change in the world? “I don’t know how to do what I drew.” (Bad teacher-researcher! No 🍪🍪! 😉)

  Published: 15 Sep 2021

• Spano. F., York, J., deHaan, J., Bard, R. (2021). One game, many approaches: How teachers can use a single game with any teaching methodology

  Published: 21 Sep 2021

• Fredrickson, T. & Lotscher, S.K. (2021). Video gaming: Helping your English learners take control

  Published: 14 Dec 2021

• deHaan, J. (2022). Game loops, Game design loops, Game Terakoya loops and Ludic Language Pedagogy loops

  Published: 17 Jan 2022

• deHaan, J. (2022). Teaching language and literacy (or anything) with games (or anything): A good way (The pedagogy of multiliteracies) simplified here for teachers and students

  Published: 11 May 2022

• York, J. (2022). Deciding who’s a n00b: Developing multimodal and gaming literacy skills with Towerfall Ascension

  Published: 20 Jul 2022

• Hourdequin, P. & Hughes, B. (2022). Places, people, practices, and play: Animal Crossing New Horizons here and there

  Published: 22 Sep 2022

• deHaan, J. (2023). Methods, materials and mediation for student-centered transformation and social participation around games

  Published: 04 Apr 2023

• York, J. (2023). Creating SPACE to play in your classroom (An LLP zine)

  Published: 20 Dec 2023

• Reed, J. (2024). Sitting in the Gamemaster's chair

  Published: 06 Nov 2024

• Johnson, M. (2025). Labov’s Story Burger and Emoji Story Inspiration

  Published: 01 Jan 2025

• Compton, T. (2025). Extensive RPGing? An evaluation of RPG video games for use in extensive reading.

  Published: 22 Apr 2025

• deHaan, J., Kajimura, J., Kawaguchi, S., Kira, H., Koike, A., Mizuno, A., Nakashima, K., Chau, N. Q., Odate, K., Suzuki, K., Tsuzuki, M., & Ueno, K. (2025). Journeys of self-discovery and growth through experiential learning in and around games.

  Published: 17 Sep 2025

• York, J. (2025). The games and education iceberg: Going beyond the surface to deeper learning

  Published: 18 Nov 2025

• Kreyer, R. (2025). The Linguist’s Lair: A fun way of testing linguistic knowledge

  Published: 26 Nov 2025