Assessing Aptitude for Learning with a Serious Game for Foreign Language and Culture

摘要: The Tactical Language and Culture Training System is interactive environment for learning foreign language culture, designed to help people quickly acquire spoken communication skills. It a serious game, combining game experiences as well lessons. As part of our research, we wish understand what individual learner characteristics predict successful with this approach, investigate whether the approach can be improved so that wider range learners learn effectively it. This paper reports on an experiment, assess which most TLCTS, attempt identify factors training TLCTS. A group US Marines participated in session focused IraqiTM, Iraqi Arabic course military use. Performance scores interaction logs were analyzed determine successful, why.