Games can provide a great goal oriented environment for language learning.\u00a0 We have a fairly wide selection of PC games for students play on their own, including many of the hit titles from the previous year.\u00a0 However, since the content the games is so wide ranging, it makes their integration into a course fairly difficult.\u00a0 Another problem is that with single player games, each student is in his or her own little world, which makes it difficult for the professor or other students to offer guidance.<\/p>\n
Of course, these single player commercial games are only a subset of games as a whole.\u00a0 Multiplayer games, whether online or traditional board games, can have a more common and limited vocabulary and offer an envrionment that supports social interaction between students and professors.\u00a0 For example, the hit German game “Settlers” is now playable online in German and English.\u00a0 It’s a game that has bargaining and town life as it’s center focus, so it would make for an ideal environment for language usage.\u00a0 An obvious comparison would be role-playing activities most of us have used in class.\u00a0 These games could function as an environment for a language exchange as well.\u00a0 Native german speakers could be invited to play with our students.\u00a0 The first game could be played in German and the second in English.<\/p>\n
Background and review of the game – http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gaming\/gamingreviews\/magazine\/17-04\/mf_settlers<\/a><\/p>\n The online version – http:\/\/www.cms.playcatan.com\/content\/view\/5\/34\/lang,en_US\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Games can provide a great goal oriented environment for language learning.\u00a0 We have a fairly wide selection of PC games for students play on their own, including many of the hit titles from the previous year.\u00a0 However, since the content … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}