Becoming fluent in a language, despite what many popular language learning programs would have us believe, is a nuanced, complex process. Yet society’s fixation on standardized, surface-level results leads us to prioritize quantitative metrics as markers of success at the expense of actual growth.
Instead, I propose an approach to learning that emphasizes personalized measures of success and embraces the elements of play we experience as children, such as mistakes, curiosity, and exploration.
The Language of Play
Olivia James
A side shot of the connect the dots board.
The animations that represent the different elements of play.
Explaining my panels and how they represent my language learning journey.
Oraciones panel that explains what type of sentence structure I learned.
A close-up of people interacting with my panels.
Lugares panel that explains where I spoke Spanish.
A photo of Silas Munro and me discussing my project.
A close-up of the connect the dots board.
A close-up of the connect the dots board.
People interacting with the connect the dots board.