My Second Language Analysis

The first time I started playing video games was about when I was about six years old. I remember it was Christmas and my dad had just gotten me the Gameboy advance which was a pretty big deal back then. The game was Pokémon and it was the latest and newest game that most kids were playing or wanted to play. After a couple of hours of gameplay I noticed a couple of words that I didn’t know. Most of the time I wouldn’t bother my parents and asking them what they meant, instead I would grab the dictionary and look up the words I didn’t know from the game and see what they meant. My vocabulary started to expand and I would often surprise my parents that I knew this vocabulary mostly because I was just starting to learn English, my second language. …show more content…
Teachers would call me most of the time to read and I hated that. I hated it because I would stutter to read and I was scared that people would laugh at me and that scene from Billy Madison when Adam Sandler said, “Ttt-today junior!” would play in the back of my mind. Playing video games helped me a lot and I think it would help a lot of children and students that have trouble with words. In my household Spanish was the main spoken language and I would speak English at school, grocery store and at the mall. It’s not a very common text when you play video games, but most video games have text that you have to read and sometimes when you’re looking for cheat codes you have to know what to type. In multiplayer games such as Call of Duty, you can talk other players and strategize how you will face the match/ war by talking through a headphone. This is another way you can communicate while playing video …show more content…
There are two parts in video games, one is playing video games and the other is talking about video games. I can consider myself an expert in talking about video games but not so much in playing video games. As I look at the past I don’t think I would have learned any other way besides playing video games. Educational videogames and recreational video games are good for the student and child. It taught me different words that were at that certain age period big words. I would thank my dad for motivating me and buying these videogames because he was the one that pushed me in order to learn the language and know how to write in English. This literacy practice is easy for me to practice anywhere now because of ipads, my iphone and also my itouch. You can literally take these devices and there are application games on the iphone, and ipad that can improve your writing and reading skills and they are not boring at