the 15-year-old Azez Azez, a student in the ninth grade in Ronneby log into the game and becomes a small figure in the red cap. He must read up and understand commands in English to get further in the game.
– Next? No, at the. It is the woman with the yellow klö? strafe? the dress? He should say to her to a zombie sitting there, reading Azez Azez.
the computer game as the Azez Azez test is an adventure game that can help him to become better in Swedish.
– In the adventure game, the player has an avatar, i.e. a figure in the game who get a mission. Sweet City is structured just so, ” says Anders Lidén, editor of Universall learning games which develops the game Sweet City.
Can become a teaching tool
computer games have been used in teaching in the past, but this is the first time that a computer game is developed to be a teaching aid in English as a second language.
In testsalen in Ronneby are also Gudrun Svensson. She is a lecturer in Swedish as a second language at linnaeus university, and it is she who has written the script for the game, where a city is attacked by zombies.
– the Language is built up around the verb. You say “get a chair”, it is a call to action. “Says you “, you can download a chair”, it is a question”, says Gudrun Svensson.
Help in five languages
the Pupils sit two and two and take turns to listen and read the prompts to be able to move the figure in the red cap. Running the firm, they can choose a lingua franca. Then they get the same text fixed in Arabic, dari, somali, tigrinya or English.
Anders Lidén expect that the game has been tested finished in February. Until then, researchers at linnaeus university to measure students ‘ reading comprehension and continue to customize the game.
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