End of the Year: Summary, Election, Surprises, and a "You-Show-Us-We-Share-Together" Session
1:30-2 pm Mingling; Election Information Sharing
2 pm Welcome and Official start of the Event
2:10 Approximate start of the Workshop/Presentation
3:20 End of Presentation
3:20 - 3:35 Break Time/Snacks
3:40 - 4:40 Year in Review; Celebrating the Good times!
Reflection Session and Sharing of Ideas/Efforts
Our Presentation/Workshop Feature:
Using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Games in EFL classrooms
Nicole Shiosaki Andrew Aguiar
Utilizing video games for teaching purposes has long been a point of interest for English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors. However, different games bring different features that must first be evaluated and considered pedagogically before entering the classroom. This presentation focuses on how a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) video game called "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" was utilized to provide EFL students with opportunities to practice producing language in a meaningful way. This was accomplished through the principles of communicative language teaching and task-based language learning. The presenters explain their thought process for how to integrate COTS video games, using Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes as their example, by examining game features, considering pedagogical qualities and choosing a specific role for a video game in the classroom. Through this method, the presenters hope that other instructors will also consider how and when video games and other digital applications can be used in the modern classroom.
Biographies
As people who like video games, Andrew Aguiar and Nicole Shiosaki are always looking for interesting and effective ways to integrate them into lessons. Andrew and Nicole presented for the KOTESOL community at The 4th Industrial Revolution and Education: Digital Language Learning and Teaching Symposium in June, 2019. Andrew recently finished his master’s degree in teaching English to speakers of other language and multimedia-assisted language learning (TESOL-MALL) at Woosong University while Nicole works at Kongju National University.
