Smart Edutainment as a Way of Enhancing Student's Motivation (on the Example of Board Games)

The paper examines specific features of smart edutainment on the examples of board games, particularly features that operate board games in teaching a foreign language, identifies the criteria and the requirements for the usage of Russian and English variants of board games in English lessons. The paper focuses on smart edutainment as a way of effective teaching method. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of smart edutainment methods with young learners in an ESL class and to have a closer look at different games and activities to support teaching and learning process.