Integrating language learning approaches in existing Edu applications.

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Avinash Zebisky
<avinashzebisky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My initial idea about making a SuperTuxKart for learning languages seemed
> quite artificial for learning languages. And I was told to look at existing
> project like Pairs, and see if I could integrate it for learning language.
> And am thankful for the feedback.
>
> So these are some of the ideas I could come up with -
>
> Pairs - A memory and pairs game for KDE
>
> This is a simple and classic game and can be easily modified for learning
> languages.
> We could ask user to make pair of alphabets from his first language and the
> language he wants to learn.
> We could ask him to pair words. For example apple and manzana(spanish for
> apple)
> We could ask him to pair common phrases.
> Pairing image and its corresponding translation in other language.
> Paring a audio of word(as in KLetters) and its corresponding text
> translation.
> Actually there can be many combinations of pairs.
>
> KLetters - I like this game a lot, having audio of 25 languages is indeed
> cool :)
>
> We could add a animated situation for the user where he would be picking up
> responses in different language. For example - We could create a restaurant
> situation and user would hear common queries from waiter, guy next to him
> etc. User will respond to these audio by picking one of the four options
> shown to him.
> The Animated situation and click response type of game is quite similar to
> most of the flash games that used to made 4-5 years back.
> Animation might come be heavy, so instead of animations we simply add images
> for each situation.
>
> KTurtle - I like this. It's a cool game for teaching programming.
> I find that this game has a lot of potentiality. And certain graphics and
> creativity can make this a game great. The amount of coding and results that
> can be created in the canvas is simply awesome.
>
> Adding puzzle and missions. These puzzles will be solved by coding in
> editor.
> Briefly, lets assume turtle to be a ninja turtle. This ninja turtle will be
> given a set of task like saving the this girl-friend. He'll be in a maze and
> his goal is to reach his girl-friend by traversing the maze and
> avoiding/destroying the obstacles.
> Now, this traversal can be a hard-coded set of instructions about the maze.
> Ninja turtle will be printing things to preform actions. For example - Ninja
> has to print fight to kill the obstacle(a cockroach) in the maze. Similar,
> to fight we can print climb,dig, super-power etc.
> Instead of hard-coding user can also enjoy algorithms like simple breadth
> for search, depth-for-search. However, this can only be possible if user can
> create his own functions(am not sure if its already implemented).
> With functions, we will get the power of recursion. For example, in the maze
> there is a certain pattern of performing things like you have to walk
> forward every 10 step and then turn right. Or killing cockroaches every 10
> steps. So user can easily write a recursion for this and avoid the long
> hard-coding :)
> I have lot of ideas about this game, but writing here will only make it
> longer.
>
> Kanagram - A classic game.
>
> We can add a plugin for downloading words in different languages.
> User can try anagrams of different languages.

This is already implemented. Choosing settings -> vocabularies -> get
new vocabularies allows downloading many other languages that can be
chosen.
Hmm, it seems this feature is broken though, I'll look into fixing that shortly.

>
> KHangMan - Another classic game.
>
> Similar to above one, we can do the same thing for KHangMan too.
> User will be shown word in different language and he'll need to guess that
> word in his desired language.

The same is implemented in KHangman, you can download many languages
from the get new vocabularies dialog.

Some of the other ideas sound interesting however.

BR,
Jeremy
>
>
> I only thought about language applications. I know its long but bear with
> me.
> Kindly, review these idea and provide me feedbacks :)
>
> Cheers :)
>
>
>
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