Today I delivered a two-hour distance-learning workshop on video game-based foreign language learning (with a focus on ESL) for the German-American Center, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum / James-F.-Byrnes-Institut in Stuttgart, Germany to an audience of approximately 60 ESL teachers from the St. Louis Sister Cities of Stuttgart, Germany, and Samara, Russia. The workshop, part of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the St. Louis/Stuttgart Sister Cities Program, was supposed to take place in Stuttgart. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the interactive, multimedia-based workshop was conducted in real time online, including a Q&A session. I would like to thank DAZ and the Sister Cities Program for this opportunity to share my VGBL scholarship and teaching practices as a professor at Saint Louis University, Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, SLU Italian Studies Program.

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