Gamification Platforms
As virtual education has gained a significant and lasting presence worldwide, teaching and learning processes must integrate digital tools that effectively support students in reaching their academic goals in online settings. These tools are often referred to as web platforms designed for collaboration and knowledge exchange. Such platforms are online environments where instructors and learners can upload, download, modify, and create content through internet-based tools. The following section introduces eleven website platforms that are enhanced by ICTs and incorporate gamification features to promote engagement and meaningful learning.
Definition
An important aspect of gamification in education is the use of classic game mechanics such as points, badges, and leaderboards, where these elements serve not only as motivational drivers but also as visible markers of progress, providing learners with a sense of achievement, points help quantify efforts, badges symbolize accomplishments, and leaderboards introduce a light competitive atmosphere that increases classroom participation, studies like the one by Wulantari et al. (2024) emphasize how these features contribute to sustained motivation and allow students to monitor their own growth, promoting engagement throughout the learning process.
Benefits
Building on the diverse mechanics of gamification, its benefits in English language learning are widely documented across educational research and one of the most significant advantages is the increase in motivation and learner engagement.
By integrating playful elements and interactive tasks, gamification transforms routine exercises into enjoyable challenges, learners become more committed to completing tasks, and this increased engagement often leads to improved academic outcomes, according to findings by Wulantari et al. (2024), students in gamified environments report higher levels of satisfaction and eagerness to participate in speaking and listening activities.
In addition to fostering motivation, gamification contributes directly to enhanced language performance, especially in vocabulary acquisition, grammar understanding, and oral fluency, transforming traditional drills into interactive games allows for more meaningful and repeated exposure to language.
ICT TOOLS FOR DEVELOPING ORAL COMMUNICATION
Recent advances in interactive mobile apps (including holographic tutors and pronunciation trainers) have demonstrated that combining rich audiovisual input with spoken practice can significantly enhance children's pronunciation, fluency, and motivation, and, by interacting with virtual characters, learners receive immediate modeling and feedback, which creates a more immersive and responsive learning experience (Cerezo et al., 2024), such environments make speaking practice more engaging and less intimidating for young learners.
Alongside these apps, enhanced digital picture books and interactive storytelling tools have emerged as effective ICT solutions, and these platforms integrate audio narration, animated visuals, and clickable text, which prompt students to repeat phrases or act out scenes, bridging the gap between receptive listening and active oral production, that’s what said Oktawidya et al. (2025) so, dual input-output method fosters deeper engagement and helps reinforce the link between reading, listening, and speaking.
GAMIFICATION PLATFORMS
Quizizz is a website platform that lets teachers create evaluations, games, and trivia in a dynamic and interactive manner. It lets students play as a group or individually.
