Gamification of behavioral experiments has been applied successfully to research in a number of disciplines, including linguistics. We believe that these methods have been underutilized in applied linguistics, in particular second-language acquisition research. The incorporation of games and gaming elements (gamification) in behavioral experiments has been shown to mitigate many of the practical constraints characteristic of lab settings, such as limited recruitment or only achieving small-scale data. However, such constraints are no longer an issue with gamified and game-based experiments, and as a result, data collection can occur remotely with greater ease and on a much wider scale, yielding data that are ecologically valid and robust. These methods enable the collection of data that are comparable in quality to the data collected in more traditional settings while engaging far more diverse participants with different language backgrounds that are more representative of the greater population. We highlight three successful applications of using games and gamification with applied linguistic experiments to illustrate the effectiveness of such approaches in a greater effort to invite other applied linguists to do the same.

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通过公民科学收集大数据：应用语言学中的游戏化和基于游戏的数据收集方法

行为实验的游戏化已成功应用于包括语言学在内的许多学科的研究。我们认为，这些方法在应用语言学，特别是第二语言习得研究中尚未得到充分利用。行为实验中融入游戏和游戏元素（游戏化）已被证明可以减轻实验室环境的许多实际限制特征，例如有限的招募或仅获得小规模数据。然而，对于游戏化和基于游戏的实验来说，这些限制不再是问题，因此，数据收集可以更轻松、更广泛地远程进行，产生生态上有效且稳健的数据。这些方法能够收集在质量上与在更传统的环境中收集的数据相当的数据，同时吸引具有不同语言背景的更多样化的参与者，这些参与者更能代表更广泛的人口。我们重点介绍了使用游戏和游戏化与应用语言学实验的三个成功应用，以说明这些方法的有效性，并努力邀请其他应用语言学家也这样做。