Games for Language Learning

by Andrew Wright, David Betteridge and Michael Buckby

Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Language learning is hard work ... Effort is required at every moment and must be maintained over a long period of time. Games help and encourage many learners to sustain their interest and work.

Games also help the teacher to create contexts in which the language is useful and meaningful. The learners want to take part and in order to do so must understand what others are saying or have written, and they must speak or write in order to express their own point of view or give information.

'The need for meaningfulness in language learning has been accepted for some years. A useful interpretation of 'meaningfulness' is that the learners respond to the content in a definite way. If they are amused, angered, intrigued or surprised the content is clearly meaningful to them. Thus the meaning of the language they listen to, read, speak and write will be more vividly experienced and, therefore, better remembered.

If it is accepted that games can provide intense and meaningful practice of language, then they must be regarded as central to a teacher's repertoire. They are thus not for use solely on wet days and at the end of term!.

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Teaching.... ICT

Hi teacher, in my opinion is very advantageous be students and teachers at the same time, because we as students are already involved in the news communication technologies, and the new information. Besides that we are not only involved in it, we are aware that it is an excellent tool that we can to take advantage of that in any classroom with every student.

In my opinion this experience has been excellent, it is great to have the elements in our hands that could become every single class in a different experience for our students. For that reason we as teachers should spread the information with our students not only to keep them to gain on the new educational information, but also to keep a good stimulus regarding learning.

Saturday, June 23, 2007