Searching for partners: testing our Lingotowns platform in a language learning setting?
Massimo Poesio
Dear members of the enet-collect community
I am writing on behalf of the team who developed the games-with-a-purpose for NLP data Phrase Detectives, TileAttack, WordClicker, Wormingo and, more recently, LingoTowns
particularly in recent years we have been focusing our efforts on developing GWAPs that could serve as language learning platforms , targeting as players students who want to improve their understanding of English grammar, in true enet-collect fashion, and we would like to start testing LingoTowns with some educational institutions, as we previously did with Phrase Detectives and the other games. So far we have been testing our GWAPs with university students in the UK - we ran sessions at QMUL and the university of Essex during the summer months's "presessional" courses - but we would like to try testing with students abroad as well, so we've been wondering whether any of the language teaching institutions in the enet-collect might be interested in working with us on such a study?
Best
Massimo Poesio & the rest
of the Games and NLP team