Board Games in the CLIL Classroom: New Trends in Content and Language Integrated Learning (Issn, 36)

✍ Scribed by Thomai Alexiou, Athanasios Karasimos

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present book explores how modern board gaming and language teaching can be beneficially combined to achieve optimal impact. Modern board games have a lot to offer language learners and teachers, and they should play a much more significant role in what has been labelled "Content and Language Integrated Learning" or CLIL.

Modern board games require cooperation, problem-solving, active discovery, interpretation and analysis. Most importantly, modern board games allow students to explore a hypothetical environment without the risk of language errors. The key ingredient of the present book is "game-based learning and teaching theory", or GBLTT, a theoretical framework which measures learning outcomes based on gaming and learning procedures. GBLTT is focused on balancing information and gameplay as well as putting a focus on the ability of each learner to retain language competence and to put their subject to realistic situations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 Introducing board games in education
2 Debunking the myths of board games
3 The benefits of board games and its impact factor in education
4 The outline of the following chapters
5 By way of epilogue
References
1 Introduction
2 The CLIL method: Definition and characteristics
3 Challenges in CLIL-ing through board games
4 Benefits of board games: Classroom evidence
5 Different games and guidelines
6 Conclusion
References
1 Introduction
2 Our study
3 Results
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
References
1 Introduction
2 Implementation of the board game
3 Conclusion
References
1 Introduction
2 Board-games in CLIL classes
3 The Hunger Grammar Games
4 Methodology of the qualitative analysis
5 Data analysis and discussion
6 Conclusion
References
1 Introduction
2 Content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
3 Game-based learning (GBL) in the CLIL context
4 The state of the art of language testing and assessment
5 Methodology
6 Results: The validation process of Reflective Learning Journals
7 Discussion
8 Conclusions
List of abbreviations
References
1 Introduction
2 The study
3 Results
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion and further directions
References
1 Introduction
2 Board games and CLIL
3 Data and methodology
4 Analysis and findings
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion
Appendices
References
1 Introduction
2 Foreign language teaching in French primary schools
3 Action research
4 Conclusion
Appendices
References
1 Introduction
2 Board games: Old habit, new perspective in CLIL
3 Escape room board games and CLIL
4 Research methodology
5 Data analysis and discussion
6 Beyond escape-room board games: creating a CLIL digital escape room
7 Concluding remarks
References
1 Introduction
2 Academic language for educational purposes
3 Scaffolding as a language-supportive methodology for content and language integrated settings
4 Current study
5 Results
6 Discussion and further perspectives
7 Conclusion
Appendix 1 List of terms used in the game
References
Notes on contributors
Index