Teaching grammar has always been a problematic area of language teaching.  While teachers spend a great deal of time and energy to teach, the students are not eager to learn as they find it a real chore. This study compared two kinds of activities for teaching grammar: games and traditional exercises. It sought to discover the effect of games on the students’ grammatical accuracy. For this purp...

one of the basic motor skills in childhood is manipulation skills. gross motor manipulation is a person's relationship with the objects and has this feature: force is applied to an object or the force of an object is absorbed. the aim of this study was to examine the effect of a selected motor program including team traditional games as motor experiences on manipulation skills development ...

Michael Liebe argues that Salen and Zimmerman's interpretation of Huizinga's magic circle does not apply to computer games. Liebe's insight reveals not only a different relation for computer games to the magic circle, but also hints at a difference in the nature of rules in computer games. Jesper Juul's comparison of non-digital sports to simulations of those sports highlights a missing aspect ...