A Qualitative Study on Using Interactive Fiction for Enhancing Employability Skills
R Jaya
Associate Professor of English, KCG College of Technology, Chennai
Keywords: Interactive fiction in ELT, Qualititative study, Interaction in language teaching
Abstract
The paper is an attempt to find out the use of online interactive fiction in enhancing the employability skills of the students. It is a qualitative study, in which feedback of students who played an online interactive fiction game was collected. The feedback revealed that the students had the scope of using and developing their critical, creative, lateral, logical, analytical, problem solving, decision making and inter personal skills.
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