Game-based Vocabulary Learning in Hong Kong : Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes and Expectations of a Game-mediated Vocabulary Learning APP

Lucas KOHNKE; Di ZOU; Fu Lee WANG; Haoran XIE

Game-based Vocabulary Learning in Hong Kong : Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes and Expectations of a Game-mediated Vocabulary Learning APP

Lucas KOHNKE, Di ZOU, Fu Lee WANG, Haoran XIE

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Abstract

The presented research discusses students’ perceptions, attitudes and expectations of a game-mediated vocabulary app. Throughout the development of the mobile app, continuous focus group interviews with students were held. The collected data were coded and analysed to identify common features or points mentioned by the students. The results showed that students highly value features like the story plot, graphic, vocabulary list and types of definitions for the design of vocabulary learning APPs. Based on these findings, the APP was further improved by adding synonyms, sentence contexts and extended definitions of the words. Our followed-up interviews indicated that students rated the improved version of the APP higher than the preliminary one. Such findings are consistent with Zou’s (2016, 2017) arguments that the availability of various aspects of word knowledge are conducive to effective word learning as it promotes greater degree of elaboration on the target vocabulary.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of International Conference on Technology in Education 2018
Place of Publication	Hong Kong
Publisher	Caritas Institute of Higher Education
Pages	56-62
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Technology in Education 2018 - Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong Duration: 9 Jan 2018 → 11 Jan 2018

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Technology in Education 2018
Abbreviated title	ICTE 2018
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Tseung Kwan O
Period	9/01/18 → 11/01/18

Bibliographical note

This study was fully supported by the Start-Up Research Grant (RG 54/2017-2018R) of The Education University of Hong Kong and a grant from Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (UGC/FDS11/E03/16).

Keywords

game-based vocabulary learning
word learning APPs
degree of elaboration

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KOHNKE, L, ZOU, D, WANG, FL & XIE, H 2018, Game-based Vocabulary Learning in Hong Kong : Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes and Expectations of a Game-mediated Vocabulary Learning APP. in Proceedings of International Conference on Technology in Education 2018. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong, pp. 56-62, International Conference on Technology in Education 2018, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, 9/01/18.

Game-based Vocabulary Learning in Hong Kong : Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes and Expectations of a Game-mediated Vocabulary Learning APP. / KOHNKE, Lucas; ZOU, Di; WANG, Fu Lee et al.
Proceedings of International Conference on Technology in Education 2018. Hong Kong: Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 2018. p. 56-62.

Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Conference paper (refereed) › Referred Conference Paper › peer-review

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