Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

01/04/05

Learning a Foreign Language by playing The Sims?!

Filed under: Game and Education, Language Game — timwang @ 11:36:51 pm

Simulations and games are becoming powerful tools in e-Learning. But have you ever imagined of using a commercial game engine and turn it into a language learning platform?

"The Sim" has to be one of the most well known game was ever created. It is also the most popular girls' game in the gaming industry. An interesting research at U.S.C. and M.I.T. turned the simulated immersion within video games become an effective way of acquiring a foreign language. Check out the original article here: http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num1/purushotma/default.html


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