Developing Visual Novel Game With Speech-Recognition Interactivity to Enhance Students’ Mastery on English Expressions

Abstract

The teaching of English-expressions has always been done through conversation samples in form of written texts, audio recordings, and videos. In the meantime, the development of computer-aided learning technology has made autonomous language learning possible. Game, as one of computer-aided learning technology products, can serve as a medium to provide educational contents like that of language teaching and learning. Visual Novel is considered as a conversational game that is suitable to be combined with English-expressions material. Unlike the other click-based interaction Visual Novel Games, the visual novel game in this research implements speech recognition as the interaction trigger. Hence, this paper aims at elaborating how visual novel games are utilized to deliver Englishexpressions with speech recognition command for the interaction. This research used Research and Development (R&D) method with Experimental design through control and experimental groups to measure its effectiveness in enhancing students' English-expressions mastery. ANOVA was utilized to prove the significant differences between the control and experimental groups. It is expected that the result of this development and experiment can devote benefits to the English teaching and learning, especially on English-expressions.

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“…Though the game might have quite some errors, it is a good start to take revolutionize Indonesian tales and stories into an entertaining platform with English language, which can be enjoyed by international users. In addition, it can also be a fun learning media for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners to be exposed with English language from which they can learn (Amalo et al, 2017;Hidayat et al, 2021;Kusumawati, 2020).…”

“…Even if those games are not intended for language learning, reducing grammatical errors can help avoiding possible confusions for the players (Heryanti et al, 2017). Though previous studies have revealed the use of game as the source of target language and investigated the grammatical errors in texts (Amalo, Agusalim, & Murdaningtyas, 2017;Atashian & Al-Bahri, 2018;Hidayat et al, 2021;Kumala, Aimah, & Ifadah, 2018;Kusumawati, 2020;Qamariah, Sri Wahyuni, & Meliana, 2020), to the best of the researchers' knowledge, they rarely conducted grammatical error analysis on games, especially those made by non-native developers. Therefore, this study intended to conduct grammatical error analysis on an Indonesian-developed game, Code Atma.…”

“…To improve grammar accuracy, a game can be an engaging media to provide exposure for English grammar in use. Amalo et al (2017) shared that games, especially visual novel games can be used to enhance language knowledge and even developed the game for English learners. Kusumawati (2020) shared that a game could help the students' understanding on provided stories within the game, but found that subtitles were ineffective in improving their vocabulary.…”

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