ÜNALOĞLU, Kadir2022-12-212022-12-2120222022https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12507/1840This study was carried out in order to examine the expected changes in English vocabulary and the perceptions of university students who are gamers at the same time. A specific video game genre which was new to the participants of this study was used in this study: RPG. To answer the research questions, a vocabulary test was designed to employ in this study. In addition to this, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test by Frank Wilcoxon and semi-structured interviews were used. The vocabulary test was created using a vocabulary pool of 860 words and expressions that repeats in the video game that was used as a tool in this study and was created according to the 5 principles in the work of Brown and Abeywickrama. 10 Semi-structured interview questions were created and used to collect data about the participants' perceptions of the process and the game they played for 8 weeks. Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test was applied to the pre-test and post-test results of the participants in order to see if there was a significant difference between the experimental group and the control groupeninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCC0 1.0 UniversalArt Thesis771354