Everyone is invited to participate in the next IALLT webinar, which will
take place Thursday, May 18, at 3 pm Eastern / 2 pm Central / 1 pm Mountain
/ 12 pm Pacific.  The topic is "Let’s Play: Gamifying Language Lessons,"
and the presenter is Catherine Ryu of Michigan State University.

This webinar will explore how to enhance the pleasure of language learning
by transforming lessons into color-coded pattern recognition games. By
using "Picky Birds," a Chinese tone training app game developed by the
presenter's interdisciplinary team as an example, we will discuss the game
design concept and its applicability to other languages (including literary
languages) as well as to other formats. The main objective of this webinar
is to explore how to communicate foreign and abstract concepts of grammar,
both linguistic and cultural, to learners by helping them to create and
solidify a mental picture of those concepts through a satisfying and
memorable gaming experience.

IALLT webinars are free and open to all interested.  Recordings of the
webinars are available to IALLT members.

To register, go to https://goo.gl/jyB0Ah .

For more information about Professor Ryu's project, see
https://goo.gl/RrDFXt.

We hope to hear you at the webinar.  Don't forget that IALLT 2017 takes
place at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, from June 20 - 23.  Find
out more at http://iallt.org/iallt-2017/ .