The effect of children learning english vocabulary through a gesture-based system

Abstract

English as a second language is catching up in Taiwan as the government placed strong emphasis on its importance, resulting to have parents having their children to learn English at a younger age. This research used a gesture-based system for children to practice spelling of the body parts English vocabulary. The results found that the participants in the conventional group had better performance compared to the gesture-based for children of 10 to 11 years old. This findings emphasized on the importance of the system’s design, such as: (1) practice session for participant to familiarize with the function of the system; (2) sufficient time to learn the learning content; (3) context-awareness design; (4) clear interface presentation; (5) an appropriate experimental environment. The limitation and future research directions are also discussed.