Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > On 4/2/2016 12:44 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> Nowadays software companies and communities are international. > > Grade school classrooms, especially pre-high school, are not.
Parenthetically, English teachers in Finland have been happy with how teenage boys' English grades have gone up with the advent of online gaming. High school boys get more top scores in English than girls. According to a recent master's thesis, the most important causal factor for the boys' success is spending a lot of time playing computer games. An English language professor wants to raise awareness about the role of games for language skills. <URL: http://yle.fi/uutiset/pojat_kiilaavat_tyttojen_ohi_englannin_ kielessa_tietokonepelien_ansiosta/5450679> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
