Suitable games for learning German
The most important part of integration is language. As more and more children and adults who have come to Germany from abroad are developing a problem To learn the German language, it is more important than ever in today's society to think about suitable learning methods do. It quickly becomes apparent that you learn better through communicative games than through monotonous books. It is therefore good to know how you can help children and adults to learn German through suitable games.
Define learning types in order to develop suitable German learning games
In general, there are different types of learning, which should be clearly differentiated in order to be able to adapt possible games or learning methods to the learning behavior of the individual.
- The haptic learner only learns in action. He has to be able to touch things and he likes to associate vocabulary, for example, with a certain movement that he makes while learning.
- The second type of learner has an auditory approach, i.e. learns better through songs or sounds that he can combine with what he has learned.
- Finally, the third type is the visual one, which, through a facility for photographic memory, learns best through everything that can be perceived with the eyes.
German learning games on a communicative basis
Once you have determined the type of learner, it will be easier for you to vote on games. As a result of communication, in addition to vocabulary, fixed idioms and grammar be learned, communicative games should generally have priority.
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- Charade: You can use pantomime to represent and guess jobs, animals or certain proverbs, entire films and songs. Depending on how advanced the learners are, they can ask questions to the performer to make it clearer what he wants to portray. This type of game is particularly suitable for the haptic learner because he is constantly on the move.
- But you can also make the charade game accessible to other types of learners. Supplement the charade, for example, with worksheets on which the professions / animals etc. are recorded again so that the players have to enter the names under the pictures - the game is also suitable for the visual learner. The auditory learner type is best accessed through songs, so the charade could be a famous song that is played and sung along afterwards. Be creative!
- In addition to career guessing, the well-known taboo is also suitable as an educational game that primarily teaches vocabulary: Develop index cards that you label on both sides. On one side you will find a German word, i.e. vocabulary in the target language, on the other side a foreign word, i.e. vocabulary in your source language. Under the word that is to be described by a paraphrase, write terms that are closely related to the word and that can hardly be missing in a comprehensible explanation. A visual learner will already learn a lot when making the cards.
- Now have the terms explained without the words written below and guess them. This game is perfect for both auditory and haptic learners.
- As a third way of learning through play, you could use your favorite films or scenes from plays paraphrase and finally present in German, so that all learner types would again be served by the concept.
Educational games for vocabulary and German spelling
In contrast to the communicative games, most spelling games require that the learner already knows the vocabulary, so that they are more suitable for more advanced learners.
- Memory in particular is a popular game to play around with spelling, orthography and strengthen word recognition. You write down the German and foreign word of an animal, occupation, etc. on two pair cards. When you've made enough memory pieces, place them upside down on the table. Then one of the parts is revealed and its partner must be found in the sum of the rest. On the face of it, the memory lends itself to consolidating vocabulary, whereby the visual and haptic type probably have a learning advantage over the auditory one.
- To learn correct spelling, you can use games like Scrabble or Word Tricks, for example. The learners have to create vocabulary from individual letters and thus deal intensively with the external form of a word.
Basically every game is for German appropriate learning that is fun and encourages creativity and communication in the target language. So feel free to come up with something yourself in order to be part of the integration that is so important today language to contribute.
