Video Games in Language Learning

Video games support language learning because games lower the affective filter, they encourage creative and spontaneous use of language and they promote communicative competence also games are both motivating and fun. When we look their cognitive benefits, video games reinforce learning while they review and extend learning.

Gaming is a student centered activity, teacher acts only as a facilitator. Games foster whole-class participation. A teacher, adapt games utilizing all four skills for age, level, and interests.

Students learn more than just the language of the lesson when playing a game, they may learn instructional language through discussion or rules and sometimes negotiation skills and a lesson in cultural differences too!