As part of our 70th-anniversary celebrations, we are delighted to share IH Talks.
This is a series of engaging talks from our IH community delving into topics that are taking our industry by storm. Each episode belongs to a theme running through the series. This episode falls under the theme "Voices from the IH Journal".
Using Games for Controlled Practice
John Shaw from IH Reggio Calabria noticed that even a great game couldn’t hold students’ attention for multiple weeks.
Through research and experimental practice, he found ways to engage students more and how to maintain the engagement through student autonomy.
In this episode of IH Talks, he shares how to introduce games to vary the way teachers use controlled practice. The games can bring up many different elements in a spontaneous way such as grammar, vocabulary and cultural references.