Using Storytelling Alice to Teach Egyptian Students Speech Acts
Save to My Collections AlKhayat, A. (2010). Using Storytelling
Alice to Teach Egyptian Students Speech Acts. In Proceedings of
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications 2010 (pp. 1-6). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/34612. The purpose of
this workshop is to present the experience of the researcher who
used Storytelling Alice with her students to enhance their
English Language Proficiency in terms of learning speech acts.
Storytelling Alice is a 3D programming software designed
primarily for teaching secondary school students programming.
The software includes "worlds" that refer to the setting of the
story, imaginary characters, buildings, animals, and aliens. The
children have to learn first how to select the world, how to
choose the characters and most importantly how to make the
characters move, speak, duck, run, dance, and turn. Speaking is
one of the most important features i