CULTIVATING KNOWLEDGE

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With the development of the technology, our perception of play and education has also changed. Nowadays, video games, console games and online games are part of their lives for children using technology.

This situation, which has been seen as opposed to education for many years, is very useful when combined with education. Computer games can be seen as opportunity to make children love education

Because many children normally prefer to look at the world in the computer, rather than looking at the blackboard in the classroom.

With any kind of education, games can be combined. Math, science, phycology and especially in language learning,

In the research that carried in 2003 by the Asian EFL Journal, the students interpreted that they enjoyed the relaxed aura the games ensured, as well as the motivation that games brought to the learning environment.

Here are three benefits of playing games to learn a foreign language

They encourage students to interact and communicate.

In games, in order to level up, you may need to communicate with other gamers to complete a task. This need supports interaction and teamwork. So that, when you communicate in another language, you feel more confident about interaction with foreign people. This encourages creative and spontaneous use of language.

Games provide language practice in the various skills- speaking, writing, listening and reading.

Especially in online games, you speak with other gamers in orally or written way. And in a conversation, you listen or read other gamers reply. You read tasks or other people’s conversations. In order to use buttons in the game, you need to read and understand in order to command your character.

Learning language via games increases learners’ motivation and reduces anxiety of making errors.

Playing computer games regularly can increase learners’ motivation. The more learner play and communicate, upgrade his/her character, the more process is efficient for learning language. And by being in an interaction with others, can reduce anxiety of making errors in time.

As a conclusion, besides the negative effects of playing computer games, there are a lot of benefits that can combined with education. It is a personal preference to make use of the content by good or bad.But it can be focused on useful directions to avoid distractions.

 

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