ERIC Number: EJ1065000
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Jun
Pages: 22
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-2013-9144
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: N/A
Multimedia Games for Fun and Learning English in Preschool
Agudo, J. Enrique; Rico, Mercedes; Sánchez, Héctor
Digital Education Review, n27 p183-204 Jun 2015
Based on the assumption that educational software addressing Primary school learners must comprise a set of features to encourage children's creativity and development, the appropriate design of second language hypermedia adaptive games for Primary School children can pose a wide range of challenges both for the language teacher and computer specialist alike. Factors such as the educational context, cognitive abilities, linguistic constraints, conceptual and psychomotor restrictions, and so on, contribute to challenging professionals. This means they must deal with linguistic, content and technology adaptation queries. Based on the results from multi-factorial analysis, this paper aims firstly to demonstrate that the design of hypermedia tasks can be optimally implemented by following previous phases of data collection on preferred items. In this sense, the questioning approach for the creation of a hypermedia system has led us to analyze learning factors in order to deal with the possible linguistic, conceptual and technological demands in the children's learning environment. General results in the preliminary phases of the study show the need to steer the learning path towards an effective adaptation to children's cognitive abilities. These are the findings from which we have devised a set of hypermedia tasks which provide the adaptation of the information presented to the student according to individual objectives, interests and/or knowledge.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Hypermedia, Web Based Instruction, Information Technology, Preschool Children, Questionnaires, English (Second Language), Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer Interfaces, Elementary School Students
Universitat de Barcelona. Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron 171, Edifici Llevant P3, Barcelona, 08035 Spain. e-mail: der@greav.net; Web site: http://greav.ub.edu/der
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Spain
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A