That seems to be an interesting subject, but I have not seen this type of
IF so far, do you know of any?
Aye, there are at least six games that use this concept:
_London_: By Nils Eng and others, written for English students in
Sweden on a level corresponding to American Junior High School.
Available on if-archive as
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/pc/london.zip
_London_Mystery_: Don't remember the name of the author. Written in
1986(?)
_Weekend Survival_ and _Escape_from_the_ELI_: Both by Lowel Reithmuller
(sp?). The latter available from
gopher://gopher.latrobe.edu.au:70/59/Computing Services/La Trobe Archive/pub/celia/english/adventure-games/dos/eli.exe
_Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_: Available from the same source as
above, but replace eli.exe with eighty.exe.
_SchMOOze_U_: A MOO dedicated to ESL and EFL students. Telnet to
arthur.rutgers.edu 8888 to try it out.
These and, hopefully, others will be described in more detail in my
forthcoming paper. Tips on other such adventures (or, indeed, any kind
of IF used for language teaching) are very welcome.
/F