Story Land of Options –SLOW GAME - 2017-1-PL01-KA203-038535 ERASMUS+

Start: 01-09-2017 - End: 31-08-2020

Lecturers
Students

Teacher Education

Autonomous learning
Classroom Context

Slovenian

Slovenian

B2

Reference resources (online Dictionaries/ grammar guides/phrasebooks)

Vocabulary

Listening
Speaking
Critical Thinking

This teaching resource is part of the website of the Gamestorming for
Innovative Teaching International Erasmus Plus Project (Slovenian, Norwegian, Romanian and Polish Universities and suits the needs of intermediate and upper-intermediate students who study in Teacher Education. They need to develop their listening, speaking and critical thinking skills and at the same time they need to expand technical related vocabulary. This resource assists both the lecturer, who can use this online game with student-players in the classroom, and students who, rather autonomously, can also explore and reflect on their empathy, self-knowledge and self-representation which they showed and developed during the activity. They naturally improve skills of communication and cooperation, negotiation, strategic, creative and logical thinking. Moreover, they raise their fluency and become more sensitive to other cultures and intercultural issues, at the same time being aware of their cultural uniqueness.

This activity of the teaching resource will be tried out during the Károli community days. The Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church of Hungary places considered emphasis on community-oriented education and the personal relationship between students and professors. These social events and this activity can contribute to explore and enjoy life as a student.The exciting and beneficial topics of empathy, self-knowledge, self-representation, communication and cooperation, negotiation, strategic, creative and logical thinking can motivate the students to learn about themselves, each other and about the foreign language as a tool. Since the concepts and practice of emotional intelligence, communication and cooperation, negotiation, strategic, creative and logical thinking as an inevitable part of teacher training is relatively new, its introduction to Teacher Education is an innovative idea and can happen in different creative ways. The technical and professional language in the description of the game is on a high level therefore to the thorough understanding students have to know the accurate vocabulary. Since the website is in English as well, it can be easily applied for several other language projects in different countries. Monitoring students’ and students’ own progress is not challenging because assessment can be aimed at the vocabulary or the topic itself. It is possible to adopt the contents to students’ need, level of emotional intelligence and language knowledge. The game is excellent to be used for special purposes. Its professional vocabulary enriches students’ knowledge in Teacher Education. The game can be easily accessed by the key words of the website and the reference of the Erasmus Plus project.

This activity of the teaching resource will be tried out during the Károli community days. The Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church of Hungary places considered emphasis on community-oriented education and the personal relationship between students and professors. These social events and this activity can contribute to explore and enjoy life as a student.