This blog is designed to allow language teachers to post language teaching games for the benefit of the wider community.The aim of the blog is to allow teachers to share successful games which they have found of use in their own classrooms, as well as the templates and materials that are necessary for those games and in doing so create a tagged and searchable repository. This repository will allow teachers to easily find games which target a particular skill or level.
Language games are a marvelous way to create a safe and fun competitive atmosphere that helps students at all levels produce language more willingly, while increasing their motivation. They can break up the tedium of class, reduce stress before an exam while emphasizing the use of language to accomplish the tasks involved in the game.
For this reason, the definition of 'game' for the purpose of this blog is loose: Any activity which is fun and which emphasizes the use of language in order to play the game is acceptable. Since the factor that makes games difficult is typically a lack of information, many of these games will resemble information-gap type activities, though we hope that posters emphasize activities which are especially enjoyable.
The blog is primarily aimed at games for use in high school and college ages classrooms, but games designed for younger students can also be posted with the appropriate tags.
The founder of the blog, and the current curator is Alexander Magidow. The curator is primarily concerned with ensuring the quality of the entries and their tags.
Language games are a marvelous way to create a safe and fun competitive atmosphere that helps students at all levels produce language more willingly, while increasing their motivation. They can break up the tedium of class, reduce stress before an exam while emphasizing the use of language to accomplish the tasks involved in the game.
For this reason, the definition of 'game' for the purpose of this blog is loose: Any activity which is fun and which emphasizes the use of language in order to play the game is acceptable. Since the factor that makes games difficult is typically a lack of information, many of these games will resemble information-gap type activities, though we hope that posters emphasize activities which are especially enjoyable.
The blog is primarily aimed at games for use in high school and college ages classrooms, but games designed for younger students can also be posted with the appropriate tags.
The founder of the blog, and the current curator is Alexander Magidow. The curator is primarily concerned with ensuring the quality of the entries and their tags.
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