Nintendo is banned everywhere but the classroom at Tokyo Joshi Gakuen school in Japan as the ubiquitous DS consoles become the latest tool in English instruction. Yahoo! has the story.
"They've been using it at home playing games, so at first they were surprised they can use it at school," Okubo said.
Still early in a one-year free trial period, vice principal Junko Tatsumi says results so far have been encouraging in Japan's long struggle with English language education.
"The students are really concentrating and have fun in gaining skills such as spelling," she said.
"Our school policy is English education should be fun."
