Teaching Linguistics With Games

This volume explores games and gamification as tools for teaching linguistics in higher education. It offers adaptable activities, promotes student-led learning through ludic pedagogy, and boosts motivation and engagement.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Ahead of the Game: Applying Gamification and Game-Base Teaching to Linguistics
Vita V. Kogan
2. Physical and Online Games for Phonetics and Phonology
Nathan Sanders, Danielle Daidone
3. Playful Linguistics - Designing the Digital Board Game Ph[o:]nix
Lena Straßburger, Petra B. Schumacher, Rebekka Wanka, Hanna Weiland-Breckle
4. Educaplay: Engaging Online Learning in the Phonetics and Phonology Class
Ana Cecilia Cad, Florencia Giménez
5. SemanTasks and SemanTricks: Using Linguistic Knowledge to Your Advantage
Maura O'Leary
6. Syntactic Concepts Game
Monika Kavalir
7. Say Something Good!: A Scrabble-inspired Board Game for Teaching NSM Semantics
Lauren Sadow
8. A Euro-style Game for the ¿-calculus
Andrew McKenzie
9. Worlds of Possibility: Murder, Mystery, and Meaning
Luisa Martí, Hazel Pearson, Qiuhao Charles Yan
10. Gamification with Ghoti: Development and Implementation of an App for Introductions to English Linguistics
Sven Leuckert, Martin Leuckert
11. The Emergence of Word Forms from Human Protolanguage
Alison Wray
12. Glyph: Gamifying the Study of Letter Shapes and Writing Systems
Yoolim Kim
13. Making Great Play of Learning: Conclusions and Lessons Learned
Vita V. Kogan
Appendices
Index

About the author

Dr. Vita V. Kogan is a researcher fellow at the University of Lisbon and a visiting lecturer in applied linguistics at University College London. She recently co-edited a volume titled Dynamic Teaching of Russian: Games and Gamification of Learning that explores the theory and practice of gamification in language education.

Product details

• Authors: Vita Kogan, Vita V. Kogan
• Assisted by: Vita Kogan (Editor), Vita V. Kogan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.10.2025
• EAN: 9781041049012
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4104901-2
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Language teaching and learning, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / General, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities