Online Games for Chinese Language Teaching and Learning

Games for Vocabulary Learning/Practice

 Comprehensive game website: for vocab, reading, listening

 Massively
Multi-player Online Role-playing Games
(MMORPG)


For
Heritage learners to learn Chinese Characters

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Selected references on games:

Conferences on Games for Learning:

Comprehensive Collections on Educational Games (not specific for Chinese)

 TCLT
Journal

http://tclt.forlang.mtsu.edu/journal/index.php

video clips on making phone calls (打电话)

http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/20101029/100585.shtml (Growing up with Chinese, Lesson 16, making phone calls. Also explaining 喂 Wei (hello), 找zhao (look
for), 打错了da cuo le (dial the wrong number) , 忘 wang (forget), 手 Hand (radical
characters, 打,找), number 8, 18. differences between yao 要 and keyi 可以.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5qFpBNxZM&lr=1 (make an appointment by phone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ewka1SA0Y&feature (Children song on making phone calls 打电话)

some websites related to body parts and seeing a doctor in Chinese

 http://genkichinese.com/chinesbodyparts.shtml (an online game to help you learn body parts in Chinese)
 
http://www.nciku.com/theme/detail?catg1ID=7&catg2ID=20 (the list of vocabs on body parts, including words, Pinyin, and English. I showed in Friday’s class)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1luXWlZ8U8 (a video clip to help you learn body parts)
  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6DNdyH8l3k (a funny video skit about seeing a doctor)
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-8UX1aa5U0&feature=related 

(Chinese version of Head, shoulder, knees, and toe)