78a - Text adventure games and how to use them in the Chinese language classroom

Text adventure games are awesome for learning Chinese, but how do they work and how can you get the most out of them? Link to article in English: Text adventure games and how to use them in the Chinese language classroom https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-play-adventure-text-games-with-a-chinese-teacher/ Link to article in Chinese (including separate podcast episode 78b): 文字冒险游戏及其在对外汉语教学中的应用 https://www.hackingchinese.com/wenzi-maoxian-youxi/ Tags: #learnchinese #textgame #wordswing #interactive Hacking Chinese courses: https://www.hackingchinese.com/courses/ WordSwing: https://wordswing.com/ Escape! (completely free): https://wordswing.com/text-game/escape/ My article about Escape! https://www.hackingchinese.com/escape-text-adventure-game-chinese-learners/ My article about Into the Haze (a longer, a bit more difficult game): https://www.hackingchinese.com/haze-new-text-adventure-game-chinese-learners/ My article about some of the other games: https://www.hackingchinese.com/five-text-games-for-chinese-learners/ Diane Neubauer's article (includes a video): https://tprsforchinese.blogspot.com/2016/09/escape-text-adventure-game-with-ap.html Student maps of WordSwing games (contains spoilers): https://blog.wordswing.com/posts/the-pedagogical-value-of-mapping-your-adventure/ How and why to teach Chinese through games: https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-and-why-to-teach-chinese-through-games/ Listen to this and other episodes on your favourite podcasting platform, including Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Google Podcast, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify and YouTube: https://www.hackingchinese.com/podcast More information and inspiration about learning and teaching Chinese can be found over at https://www.hackingchinese.com Music: "Traxis 1 ~ F. Benjamin" by Traxis, 2020 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)