Development of a Situational Interaction Game for Improving Preschool Children' Performance in English-Vocabulary Learning
Mei Pu, Zheng Zhong · 2018
Nowadays, obtaining the competitive advantage of global, a foreign language, especially English, has great importance. Prior studies have noted that many English learning materials were presented in the form of papers, digital games and digital animation, lacking of efficient interaction and emotional connection. For this reason, this study incorporated the features of Augmented Reality and mobile devices to develop a mobile augmented reality game in preschool English-vocabulary learning. To evaluate the effectiveness of this system, an experiment has been conducted in northern Taiwan to examine the students' performance in term of learning achievements, learning interests and cognition load. As measuring tools, a pre-test, a post-test and a questionnaire were used. From the experimental results, it is found that even the students who learn with the mobile AR interaction game have similar learning achievements with those who learn with the traditional physical cards approach, the situational interaction gaming approach could significantly improve the students' learning interest and decrease cognition load.