Japanese Middle School English comes to the DS in April
If you’ve taught middle school in Japan before, you’ve seen this book: New Horizon. Coming April 24th, from Paon, Japanese schoolchildren will be able do textbook activities sans paper and pen, on their DSes. Even more interesting, is that kids will be able to do listening practice, in addition to writing practice, without the need for CDs or a dedicated portable audio player. I’ve taught in middle schools here, and what I hear from kids is that they don’t typically own iPods or the like.
It makes me jealous. When I was young, technology hadn’t yet advanced to the point where we could do anything this cool with our studies. Hopefully, since a lot of children don’t usually enjoy studying English, putting it on a DS and giving it the illusion of being a game, they’ll give it a try, possibly learning more than they normally would.
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