Experience with Serious Games for Learning Foreign Languages and Cultures
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The Tactical Language and Culture Training System (TLCTS) that is an interactive learning platform that helps people quickly acquire communication skills in foreign languages and cultures. It integrates serious game technology and intelligent tutoring system technology. Learners alternate between working on interactive lessons that teach communication skills and interactive games that require learners to apply those skills. TLCTS trainers have been developed for Arabic dialects and Pashto, and trainers for other languages are under development. Thousands of American service members have trained using TLCTS trainers. This paper summaries some of the lessons learned from putting TLCTS trainers into practice, both about serious game design in general and learning environment design for language and culture training in particular.
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