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- ItemBuilding character: An application of Gee’s theory of situated learning to a role-playing game in an English language classroom(Colloquia Revista de Pensamiento y Cultura, 2019-12-02) Berger-Mason, JanineThis project is an attempt to design a method of teaching English as a foreign language to Ecuadorian university students by applying Gee's theory of "situated learning”. The researcher posed the following problem: How can global empathy be incorporated into the EFL classroom so as to increase students’ intrinsic motivation to learn the language and help them to learn it better? and suggested the following answer: Through a role-playing game in which students create avatars with specific, realistic characteristics including nationality, religion, socio-economic status and gender, and place them within the context of an ethical dilemma. The game was implemeted with two groups of students, one at the A1 level (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) and the other at the B2 level. Preliminary results show increased global empathy and are also promising in terms of student motivation and language acquisition.
- Item“BUILDING CHARACTER”: A NON-DIGITAL EFL CLASSROOM GAME TO TEACH GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP(ETC Press, 2019-10-16) Berger-Mason, JanineThis paper describes a 16 week-long, live-action experimental game in which English language learners at Universidad de los Hemisferios, a university in Quito, Ecuador, design an avatar and place him/her in an ethical dilemma. The aim of this game is to persuade students to have tolerance and empathy for those in different circumstances. Ian Bogost (2007) says that “procedural rhetoric” involves persuading by having people interact with a rule-based system. The challenge is to see whether the students are able to keep all aspects of the avatar’s identity in mind while role-playing the final game, for only in so doing can they make the leap from their own perspective to that of the “other”.