Larpushka
I used ArmA 3 and Fallout 76 to try and help people improve their language skills, specifically for English learning and Hebrew learning. I used a private lessons format and video games to try and give those students speaking practice. This way I combined both action and language learning. Language-learning with video games assisted by a private teacher is a method I developed over time, the main focus of it is to get the player to talk and interact with you in a virtual environment. Speaking is very important when you learn languages and being able to do it in 3D or virtual environment or even with VR is, I believe, the future of language learning. Combining VR technology and speaking practice/language learning is an ideal tool to practice and improve your target language while being immersed in a fantasy/sci-fi world.
With all the volunteers who came, those are my conclusions…
Thanks to all my volunteers
Teaching with video games
Teaching languages with video games
English learning with video games
private English lessons with games
Private Hebrew lessons with games
Language learning while having fun
ArmA 3 and language learning
Simulation games and language learning
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that is really cool ! i should do something similar but for french
That was rather interesting to watch. I would like to share some of my experience as someone who has become fluent in English trough Gaming.
First of all, a pure multiplayer/coop experience would probably be more successful because in order to interact with others, the person will be forced to overcome the language barrier. From what you've shown here, it feels like your "students" were just following you instead of working with you, which makes the method more likely to fail as they aren't driven to overcome that language barrier.
The second thing that I want to point out is that for this to work, the person learning needs to have both a basic understanding of English grammar as well as a basic understanding of gaming (controls, objectives, etc.). Gaming can't teach those basic concepts but can build on that foundation. I personally greatly improved my spelling and increased my vocabulary very quickly by playing survival games like Unturned and DayZ which let me interact with a lot of items from everyday life.
Once that foundation has been laid, the potential to improve someone's conversationalist skills is massive, especially if it's done parallel to some form of education in a school. I started gaming when I was 10 or 11, in 5th grade of elementary. Unlike my classmates, because of my online interaction with people, I was able to apply all of the grammar that we've learned in school to practical use. That's what I think is the most beneficial part of gaming, letting people take what they've learned and use it in real conversations with other people.
I have been gaming for almost 10 years now and at this point I most likely speak English more often than I speak Serbian on a daily basis and I have almost completely switched to thinking in English.
Anyway, those are the things that I wanted to point out. Also that 20 year old guy from Fallout was totally trying to hit on you lmao