Things to Do in Duskwood When You're Dead: English Lessons from "World of Warcraft"

Autor/in	Moon, Brian
Titel	Things to Do in Duskwood When You're Dead: English Lessons from "World of Warcraft"
Quelle	In: English in Australia, 43 (2008) 1, S.47-56 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-2147
Schlagwörter	Role Playing; Creative Writing; Fantasy; English Teachers; Males; Computers; Games; Teaching Methods; Writing (Composition); Literary Styles; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Poetry; English Instruction; Literacy; Gender Differences; Foreign Countries; Simulated Environment; Programming; Vocational Education; Females; Adolescents; Australia; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rollenspiel; Kreatives Schreiben; Fantasie; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Digitalrechner; Game; Spiel; Spiele; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schreibübung; Literarischer Stil; Lyrik; Poesie; English langauage lessons; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland; Künstliche Umwelt; Programmierung; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Australien
Abstract	"World of Warcraft" is an online computer game with over nine million players, many of them technically-minded young males. A proportion of these young males engage in spontaneous creative writing about their game adventures. They enjoy highly formulaic genres, such as the epic poem, with its complex technical requirements. This has implications for the content and methods used in mainstream classrooms to engage those boys who hold English in low esteem. Their attraction to rule-governed systems and to fantasy role playing suggests that English teachers might do well to reconsider the value of technical styles, systematic instruction, and the contrived persona, in contrast to a more Romantic emphasis on free-form writing, personal voice and self-disclosure. (Contains 5 notes.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Australian Association for the Teaching of English. English House, 416 Magill Road, Kensington Gardens, SA 5068 Australia. Tel: +61-8-8332-2845; Fax: +61-8-8333-0394; e-mail: aate@aate.org.au; Web site: http://www.aate.org.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10