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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5242 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 1 of 13 05 March 2014 at 9:59pm | IP Logged |
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Something that I've been thinking of a lot lately is how to apply gamification to
language learning. It's quite a buzz word these days but when applied well, I think gamification can be highly effective. Gamification can be about establishing a system of motivation - points, goal-setting, awards, tracking, competition, etc. It could be about using language to achieve goals. Or it can be about transforming dry learning activities into something a bit more fun and engaging. There are plenty of games that are already established that would be great to include in the language learning "toolbox" as is or slightly modified. Or you can create games, both simple and elaborate. I like game play because it can hide the fact that you're drilling the language and, when there are multiple players that have a low level in the language, I like that it helps them speak with each other. I sort of stumbled into gamification while teaching English to French elementary school kids. While brainstorming how to teach food vocabulary (beyond just drilling them with flash cards), I came up with an idea of turning it into a game. I made a bunch of cards with food items and had them play a Go Fish-like game to practice asking each other for different foods allowing them to practice not only the vocabulary but also the structure. It was one of the few real breakthroughs I had - suddenly I had these kids interacting exclusively in English, in full sentences, for an entire lesson (about 45 minutes). It was magic! I was able to use it while giving private lessons to two sets of siblings. When I left France, I gifted them a deck, giving them a way to practice English as a family (something that can be very hard to establish when no member of the family is a native speaker). Since then I've often thought about ways to develop other games that would help me to teach and learn languages myself. I discovered the Language Hunters/Where Are Your Keys? methods. I recently found a sentence-building card game called Kloo which is exactly like something I was brainstorming. Has anyone else given this subject some thought? Have you tried anything that would be good to share? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6448 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 13 06 March 2014 at 1:25am | IP Logged |
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Some relevant threads:
AJATT SilverSpoon/Neutrino Criminal Case - the best way to learn the names of various physical objects, as well as some scientific vocabulary 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5242 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 3 of 13 06 March 2014 at 5:42am | IP Logged |
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Ah, yes, the hidden object mystery games! I played a lot of those at one time and it was great for learning random household objects in French that I still didn't know the names of even after reaching an advanced level. I'll have to see if there's one for Irish...
While searching what people had to say about using a particular game for language learning (Story Cubes), I stumbled on the site Board Game Geek forum where there were a ton of threads and lists of suggestions. Change up your language meetups and exchange sessions with a game! : BGG Games in my High School Latin Classroom Games to Teach Languages Games that provide fun English practice for college/adult ESL students and many more. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4540 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 4 of 13 06 March 2014 at 5:52am | IP Logged |
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Love Criminal Case.
Also, love the idea of gamification in language learning. I really think that s the next big thing in the field. I could play games for 3x as long as I could potentially sit down and study. Very interesting concept. I'm a part-time board and card game design nerd as well, so I think I may have some brain-storming to do... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4104 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 13 06 March 2014 at 7:34am | IP Logged |
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I don't know whether this is what's actually looked for, but I like turning video-game time to language learning time. I just swap the language of the game to German so that I get practice and play. Works especially well with role-playing games.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6448 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 13 06 March 2014 at 9:57am | IP Logged |
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Speaking of that, lyricstraining has been redesigned and gamified. I've written here about the changes I noticed but tbh I don't quite understand all the maths behind the new points system. I only know that nowadays it's 1 point per letter, regardless of the difficulty. Only complete words gain you points. But I have no clue what the maximum points are nowadays.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4558 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 7 of 13 06 March 2014 at 11:30am | IP Logged |
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I play FIFA 13 in my target languages, does that count? :D
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6448 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 8 of 13 06 March 2014 at 11:48am | IP Logged |
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Of course!
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