• interactive learning event with a realistic setting and the necessary background information

• offers the opportunity of "learning by doing": presents a task to perform or a problem to solve together

• allows the learners to make choices, shows the consequence of those choices and builds confidence in the learners when the problem is mastered

• more than a roleplay because the learners act as themselves and use their own judgements and linguistic resources

• reduces anxiety about linguistic performance because learners are not judged, corrected or evaluated

• highly motivating because language is learned creatively and communicatively

• can help develop cognitive abilities such as analysing, evaluating and synthesising information

• provides the opportunity to acquire intercultural and interpersonal competence such as being a team-player and cooperate

• simulations come in all shapes, sizes and levels of complexity and can be designed to match the individual circumstances of a particular group

( excerpt from: Paula Christopher, Ken Hyland)