{"id":1145,"date":"2025-07-07T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:37:07","slug":"learning-with-board-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/2025\/learning-with-board-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning with Board Games (CBC Interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Learning with Board Games (CBC Interview)\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, we\u2019re not the only people thinking about connections between board games and language learning. In her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/audio\/9.6815482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sunday Morning<\/a> interview with Tim Clare, the CBC\u2019s Nora Young learns more about the history of board games, the power of role-playing, and the influence of colonialism on the spread of board games around the world.&nbsp; Clare also mentions a newly released game called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alwaysawake.games\/product\/out-of-sorts\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cOut of Sorts\u201d<\/a> that requires players to organize an alien\u2019s book collection based only on cards written in the alien\u2019s language.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, we\u2019re not the only people thinking about connections between board games and language learning. In her Sunday Morning interview with Tim Clare, the CBC\u2019s Nora Young learns more about the history of board games, the power of role-playing, and the influence of colonialism on the spread of board games around the world.&nbsp; Clare also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board-game-project"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}