ESL games are an important, almost vital, part of the ESL classroom. finding activities that are fun, engaging, and deeply beneficial gets a lot more challenging.📷Your advanced students are going to get a little bored if you just have them throwing the sticky ball at the board every class. for more involved and stimulating activities that will have ,due to students having so much fun they don’t even realize how much they are learning.
ESL games are an important, almost vital, part of the ESL classroom. finding activities that are fun, engaging, and deeply beneficial gets a lot more challenging.📷Your advanced students are going to get a little bored if you just have them throwing the sticky ball at the board every class. for more involved and stimulating activities that will have ,due to students having so much fun they don’t even realize how much they are learning.
Games are usually played to create fun, arouse interest , and strengthen relations between people by engaging them to take part in activities. And the aims of ESL games are similar to what has been stated. Games are full of student-student interaction where students have the chance to express themselves freely and acquire the language unconsciously. In free practice, students realize the importance of using the learnt language items in real life situations. Role-playing, problem solving, debates, are recommended.
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To clarify the difference, a game is played purely for fun, e.g. computer games. Game-based learning involves using some sort of game with pre-defined learning goals, e.g. Role Play. Gamification, however, “utilizes the experience of fun along with intrinsic motivation and rewards to engage and captivate individual participants” (Chakraborty, 2016). Hence, I am still searching for an appropriate answer.
Reference available at: https://www.infoprolearning.com/blog/differences-between-games-game-based-learning-gamification/.
I iterate... "Hence, I am still searching for an appropriate answer", with respect to teaching grammar at advanced levels. That it, the above quote is fine but how can it applied to our question?
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