Board Games in the CLIL Classroom: New Trends in Content and Language Integrated Learning

Bys: Thomai Alexiou and Athanasios Karasimos

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111000478
• ISBN13: 9783111000473
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary