Gamifying the Primary English Classroom : From Punctuation, Badges and Rewards Towards a Transformative 21st Century Classroom

ISBN-13: 9786139576654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 156 str.

Suzette Duarte Oliveira; Mário Domingues Cruz

Opis

By encompassing Ubuntu oral traditional storytelling with an experiential communicative approach, this book targets on the gamification approach intermingled with the South African English linguistic and cultural variety in the Primary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teaching. Taking Chou's (2016) Octalysis Framework into account, several gamification designs and practices were implemented in the scope of a project entitled 'Kwesukasukela'. These gamified tasks stimulated collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity, which are considered as the basis for professional success in the 21st century. An ethnographic methodological approach was resorted to when observing these practices, within a group of 4th year primary pupils learning EFL in Oporto, Portugal, in which project's development and the expansion of creative and collaborative critical thinking skills were proposed. The study's main results show that the gamification approach can aid in the progression of dialogue, can promote cultural awareness and can expedite pupil's cognitive and affective enthrallment and engagement, thereon fostering the development of a transformative EFL classroom.

O autorze

SUZETTE OLIVEIRA is an English teacher at CLIP - The Oporto International School and Universidade do Porto. She holds a MA in Teaching English at Primary Education.MÁRIO CRUZ is an Associate Professor at Politécnico do Porto, where he teaches Spanish and Language Didactics. He holds MAs in Teaching of English and Spanish and a PhD in Didactics.