Nintendo Helps Spur Japanese Students' Interest in English
Charleston Gazette › June 27, 2008
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TOKYO - The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods.
A giggly class of 32 seventh-graders used plastic pens to spell words like "hamburger" and "cola" on the touch panel screen - the key feature of the hit console - following an electronic voice from the machine.See the full content of this document
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Nintendo Helps Spur Japanese Students' Interest in English
It's a sort of high-tech spelling bee. When the students gets ...
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