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Educational Games for Early Childhood - Using Tabletop Surface Computers for Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

Year: 2015

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper presents initial evaluation regarding the use of simple educational games on tabletop surface computers to teach Kindergarten students in Qatar the Arabic alphabet. This effort is part of the “Arabiyyatii” research project, a 3-year endeavor aimed to teach 5-year-olds Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The paper describes a naturalistic study design, following the activities of 18 students for a period of 9 weeks in the project. All students were native speakers of the Qatari dialect and they were early users of similar surface technologies. The paper presents three of the games available to the students, along with data collected from system log files and class observations. Result analysis suggests that these kinds of games could be useful in (a) enhancing students’ engagement in language learning, (b) increasing their exposure to MSA, and (c) developing their vocabulary.

Source: International Conference on Computer Supported Education

DOI: 10.5220/0005471701300138

Authors: Pantelis M. Papadopoulos, Zeinab Ibrahim, Andreas Karatsolis

Institutions: Aarhus University, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Arabic Language Education Studies

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2294032001

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