WOW - Using World Of Warcraft to Teach English? : World of Warcraft General Discussions

Recently gamasutra conducting an Q&A with Professor Edd Schneider regarding a the subject that online gaming can be used to teach English to Asian teens. Go give it a read...

What inspired you to start connecting American and Chinese players?

At first it was about marketing. The question was, how do you sell games to kids in Asia? They can already go and buy your brand new game for 60 cents the day it comes out. The other thing was, parents in Asia really discourage game play. They want their kids to be studying, doing sports. But, of course, the one thing that all parents want their kids to do is speak English. And our theory was, you can't pirate English speaking players.

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