Development of a Mobile Game Application for Early Childhood to Enhance the Pronunciation and Listening Skills of English Vocabularies

Abstract

          The objectives of this research are 1) to study guidelines for early childhood’s skill development of the English vocabulary listening and pronunciation. 2) to develop a mobile game application for early childhood’s skill enhancement of English vocabulary pronunciation and listening. The application is composed of 2 game modes: (1) Vocabulary mode: to practice listening skill consisting of 5 sub-categories. The user will listen to the pre-recorded words of many English terms with the native accent and pronunciation then these English words will appear through various scenes in the game mode. (2) Game mode: to develop and practice pronunciation skill containing in 6 stages. In this mode, the player have to pronounce English words to match the vocabulary figures randomly released during the game.

          This research was conducted by studying, collecting data and validating the application with a sample of 16 participants: parents and kindergarten teacher teaching English. From the evaluation of users’ satisfaction, the users have the very high degree of satisfaction. This edutainment game aimed at enhancing the pronunciation and listening skills of English Vocabularies and applying to the target group as a learning medium appropriately.