Student Perspective: Sydney Sakalauskas

 As a future language teacher, I thoroughly believe that playing games and language learning go hand in hand. Every engaging and successful language classroom I've experienced through observation or my own school experience had a variety of games that were commonly used.

A few of my favorites are Hangman, Quizlet Live, Fly Swatter, and Simón Dice 

Games are a fantastic way to formatively assess student comprehension. As students play the game we can see what information they know or don't know. For example: While playing Hangman the class needs to properly translate sentences from English to Spanish to guess a letter for Hangman. Students are really struggling to translate the word "they go" they keep writing va instead of van. This would show me, the teacher, they need more review and practice using the verb "ir". I can also do a check-in after the game or ticket out the door to ask students what they struggled most with while we were playing.