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To: Larry Latham, scribble & Celeste I'm grateful for Celeste's contribution to my quest for opinions relating to the subject. Her experience with Asian learners is remote from my own with adults who (1) have some notion of English, (2) are geographically close to an English speaking country, (3) wh...

To: Scribble Penny Ur has been mentioned to me, but I've not had access to her book, which I'm sure would be enlightening. Your experience indicates that the use of games for teaching ESL should be judicious and that it should not be thought that games will convey all of the information that a teach...

To: Larry Latham Thank you for quick reply. My opinion at this point is similar to yours. I can see the justification of use of games (on the assumption that they are meaningful)for teaching children and adolescents as a way of obtaining and maintaining attention at certain points in the process, be...

As part of the COTE certification program, I ,among others,have been assigned the writing of an essay relating to the advantages and disadvantages of using games as a technique for teaching ESL. In Mexico, where I teach, there is lack of materials relating to ESL teaching and those in my school's li...