Mission US
Mission Us is
a” multimedia project that immerse players in U.S. history content through free
interactive games.” It is mainly used to teach ESL students who either came to
US late in their life or grew up in some immigrant family in which they get
little knowledge about history and culture of the US.
I as teacher would
definitely use it in my classroom. I could have students to play it in their
home and report to me their progress, and send to me some questions through
Email regarding vocabularies and expressions they could not figure out every
other day. That could be considered as a kind of exploring of language in a
meaningful and interactive manner.
The tool itself could be
very engaging to many students for two reasons. First of all, the pictures on
the sites are beautiful and all the historical settings made it very
interesting to students. Secondly, to be able to participate in an exotic as
well as exciting real history is a fun thing to do for many students.
The one problems of the
site is that the some vocabularies appeared in the games is not that
up-to-dated. Being exposed to and learn to use some words for old objects in
the game is not useful for students’ language practice and improvement in terms
of current language use. That I think is not good for many EFL learners who
only want to learn a language that they can practice right away.
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