Is It Possible To Learn Language By Games?

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   I’ve been surfing around the internet and I came across with this interesting news. A Professor from St. Louis University is using video games to teach language skills.

   Simon Bregni, PH.D., started playing games when he was 12 in 1975. And during his ‘20s, he noticed that playing games has affected his language learning in a positive way. And that was the inspiration he used in his research and teaching methods.
   He developed a language course based on gaming. The class, called Intensive Italian for Gamers, reported that two semesters worth of language acquisition over the course of a single fall semester. By the final, they were three to five points ahead of students who attended a traditional Italian course.
   Bregni in order to improve the vocabulary and grammar, uses games. For example, ''Heavy Rain'', '' Final Fantasy'' and '' Rise of the Tomb Raider''. However, he claims that '' Assassin's Creed II'' is one of the most useful.
   “In my Italian Renaissance literature course, for example, students explore Florence as it flourished under the Medici by playing ‘Assassin’s Creed II,'” Bregni said in a paper published in “Profession.” “My 21st-century American students partake in the life of Ezio Auditore, a 20-something man from an affluent family, by wandering around a cultural and historical re-creation of 1476 Florence.”
“I firmly believe that learning should be fun,” he added. “The fact that it is fun doesn’t take away from the seriousness — it’s just more effective.”

Source: Variety


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