English Teaching: Practice and Critique
VISL in Danish schools
Anette Wulff (Visual Interactive Syntax Learning)
The acronym VISL is short for Visual Interactive
Syntax Learning (www.visl.sdu.dk). This article will concentrate on
grammar games as one of the teaching aspects of the VISL site. The idea
behind the use of VISL in schools is that learning can and should be
fun. It is a part of the VISL pedagogy that linguistic and grammatical
knowledge and information can be learned by using interactive computer
games. On the VISL webpage one finds a number of educational grammar
games. Each of these games is designed to give the user a better
understanding of the concept of word classes and sentence functions.
This article gives information about a number of grammar games and
information on how to play the games. There is also information on the
use of VISL in Danish schools.