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Language based games - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "Play is an important mediator for learning and socialisation throughout life" (Reiber, 1996, p.44)
      - "Having children play games to learn is simply asking them to do what comes naturally" (Reiber, 1996, p.50)
      - Higher motivation
        
        "poor motivation and the lack of infomation related to the importance of mastering language skills have prevented students from learning them effectively. (Normandia, 1991, p.1)"
      - learning process should be fun and meaningful.
        
        Ausubel suggests. meaningful - not only should the learning of somehting new be engaging and entertaining, but it should also have some sort of direct use.
    - - Purpose
  - - - Uberman (1998) highlights "Games encourage, entertain, teach, and ptomote fluency and communicative skills".
    - - Team work: gives them a chance to think critically, engage with and discover the value of teamwork
- - - - The teacher can observe the amount of language produced by students during the spot- the - difference game, as evidence of the product of their learning, was evaluated by adopting a method of analysis developed by Ohta (2001), in which she transcribed the recorded data and then counted the lines containing English and turned them into percentages. (Aldabbuss, p.97) This was done between 2 classes and teacher can compare the percentages (result) between the two classes and analyse students' language production.
        
        What evidence might tell you?
        
        To build a comprehensive picture of their language use (Aldabbuss, p.98)
        
        How that may influence your implementation of the strategy?
        
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