Digital Gaming in Teaching & Language Learning Do you teach English as a foreign language? Do you teach young learners? Do you want to use online computer games in class to engage your learners? Then you have come to the right place.

Do you teach English as a foreign language?

Do you teach young learners?

Do you want to use online computer games in class to engage your learners?

Then you have come to the right place.

You can use online computer games for all kinds of different skills work. Speaking Reading Writing Listening You just have to figure out how to adapt them.

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Listening

You just have to figure out how to adapt them.

Here are a few online games I use to engage my learners in a writing task. They are good for: Narrative tenses. Defining/ non defining relative clauses. Linking devices. Narrative language structures.

They are good for:

Narrative tenses.

Defining/ non defining relative clauses.

Linking devices.

Narrative language structures.

This one is very popular: You click on the icons on either side of the cube and it grows. Here’s what the cube looks like if you click on the icons in the correct order.

You click on the icons on either side of the cube and it grows.

Here’s what the cube looks like if you click on the icons in the correct order.

WHAT IS THE CORRECT ORDER? Yellow Man Water Orange yellow and green shapes Wooden pot Blue pipe Fire White bowl Bone Spring Red ball

Yellow Man Water Orange yellow and green shapes Wooden pot Blue pipe Fire White bowl Bone Spring Red ball

But how do I use this with my students? I’ve written out a nice little lesson plan for this game here: http://kylemawer.wikispaces.com/Grow+Cube

I’ve written out a nice little lesson plan for this game here:

http://kylemawer.wikispaces.com/Grow+Cube

But in a nutshell I played while my learners watched and one of them wrote . . .

Hang on! That first line has got a relative clause at the end. Let’s get that story up on the board! NOW!

Let’s get that story up on the board!

NOW!

But in a nutshell I played while my learners watched and one of them wrote . . .

Hang on! That first line has got a relative clause at the end. Let’s get that story up on the board! NOW!

Let’s get that story up on the board!

NOW!

The text is now on the board. My learners took it in turns to come up and place a dot where a relative clause could go and told the class what it was.

Here’s what we got: Learners copied this out and writing in the relative clauses.

Learners copied this out and writing in the relative clauses.

Bye for now. Look out for more slideshows covering different language areas and skills work.

Bye for now.

Look out for more slideshows covering different language areas and skills work.