Теrmez state university department of philology and teaching languages: english the department of foreign language teaching methodology

Challenging aspects during professional growth who in the a2 level learners 
2.1 The teachers` role in the process of teaching language 
So far, educational game research has tended to neglect the crucial role of the 
teacher in actually choosing, preparing for, teaching with, and evaluating the use of 
educational games. In this paper, we argue that in order to understand how teachers 
facilitate educational games, it is necessary both to consider how different game 
modalities enable different teacher roles and also how teachers position themselves in 
relation to games. We first present a theoretically and empirically based framework 
for understanding how teachers facilitate games by shifting through the roles as 
instructor, playmaker, guide, and explorer. 
Next, we analyse and discuss whether the model can be extended to describe a 
group of 19 secondary teachers' approaches to the educational computer game series 
Global Conflicts (GC). The empirical analysis is based upon positioning theory and 
multimodal theory and falls in two parts. In the first part, we analyse how the teachers 
enacted the GC games in different classroom settings. As our findings show, the 
available modalities of the game design made the teachers assume relatively passive 
roles during the actual game activities. Next, we analyse a series of pre-game 
interviews with teachers and analyse how the teachers positioned themselves in 
relation to the GC games - both in relation to their general pedagogical beliefs and in 
relation to more specific assumptions about how to teach with the GC games. This 
part of the analysis suggests that teachers' familiarity with computer games and ICTs 
was quite significant influential in relation to how detailed teachers could project and 
predict different pedagogical approaches to teaching with the GC games. 
What is the role of the teacher in game based learning? 
How important is the role of a teacher? 
Why is it so important to teach by using games? 
What is one of a teacher's most important roles? 
What is the role of the teacher in game based learning? 
How important is the role of a teacher? 
Why is it so important to teach by using games? 

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What is one of a teacher's most important roles?
When attempting to incorporate games in current teaching practice, we considered 
the question: