Semantic Boggle: A Game for Vocabulary Acquisition

Toma, Irina; Alexandru, C.; Dascălu, Mihai; Dessus, Philippe; Trăușan-Matu, Ștefan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66610-5_73

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“…• Vocabulary acquisition games -this is the first phase of the learning process focused on assimilating individual words or simple phrases. The serious games included in this category are Semantic Boggle [11], Semantic Taboo [10] and LearnerSkill [3]; • Comprehension -in this phase, students enhance their ability to learn from different text materials. This category includes Edutainment Platform [13] and Reading Space Secrets [12]; • Collaboration -in this phase students improve their communication and collaboration skills by playing problem-solving games in a chat-like interface.…”

Section: Learning English Through Serious Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Astronaut Game – A Vocabulary Game Employing Natural Language Processing Techniques

Toma¹,

Stefan²,

Dascălu³

et al. 2021

RoCHI - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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Serious games are viable alternatives for learning and for acquiring new skills. Serious games introduce users with a learning environment that mimics real life situations, where they can practice and improve their skills. While considering education, we focus on games used for language learning, which cover multiple categories that range from vocabulary acquisition, comprehension, collaboration, to free text writing. The serious game described in this paper -the Astronaut Game -is design for English as Second Level users and consists of two parts. The first part consists of a Platform Jumper for vocabulary acquisition, in which an astronaut runs and jumps to collect rocket pieces that symbolize words; the aim of this sub-game is to teach words from different lexical fields to the players, depending on the level they are playing. The second part, the Rocket Hangman, is centered on comprehension and users must identify the central keywords from the reference text. Our game was tested by a group of 16 individuals and received positive feedback.

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Section: Learning English Through Serious Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Astronaut Game – A Vocabulary Game Employing Natural Language Processing Techniques

Toma¹,

Stefan²,

Dascălu³

et al. 2021

RoCHI - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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“…Our study focuses on enhancing these methods by incorporating them in a smart learning environment that makes use of gamification. Starting from serious games centered on vocabulary acquisition, such as Semantic Boggle [2] and Semantic Taboo [3], our aim is to move forward towards evaluating how students understand written texts [4].…”

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The Robbers and the Others – A Serious Game Using Natural Language Processing

Toma

Brighiu

Dascălu

et al. 2018

The Interplay of Data, Technology, Place and People for Smart Learning

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Abstract. Learning a new language includes multiple aspects, from vocabulary acquisition to exercising words in sentences, and developing discourse building capabilities. In most learning scenarios, students learn individually and interact only during classes; therefore, it is difficult to enhance their communication and collaboration skills. The prototype game described in this paper aims to fill this gap and improve the students' learning skills in a smart learning environment suitable for a problem-solving game. In addition, the game is also an useful tool for teachers because of the integrated chat analysis that enables the identification of the most predominant points of view and the overall level of collaboration between participants. The game is developed as a bot on the Slack chat platform and reacts to user commands. At the end of a game round, the bot is to save the conversation transcript and send it to the ReaderBench framework for further chat analysis. Keywords:Collaborative serious games · Smart learning environment Conversation analysis · Online chat · Language learning ReaderBench framework MotivationOne important task in a 'smart' learning ecosystem is to help language learning both native children and foreigners that enter in that ecosystem. However, language learning is a long-term process that includes vocabulary acquisition, accompanied by its usage in a coherent manner, within more and more elaborated contexts. The language learning process that is currently available in schools and universities is based on memorizing concepts, repeating them and using them in sentences [1]. Our study focuses on enhancing these methods by incorporating them in a smart learning environment that makes use of gamification. Starting from serious games centered on vocabulary acquisition, such as Semantic Boggle [2] and Semantic Taboo [3], our aim is to move forward towards evaluating how students understand written texts [4].In this paper we introduce a prototype serious game that focuses on improving the collaboration and communication levels of students. The game, The Robbers and the Others, is a problem-solving role-playing smart chat environment in which students are

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“…Bu bağlamda oyunlar İngilizce dersinde kelime öğretiminde alternatif bir yöntem olarak kullanılabilir. Tabu oyunu, bir oyuncunun bir karttan kelimenin anlamını anlattığı, diğerlerinin ise kelimeyi tahmin ettiği çok oyunculu kelime tahmin oyunudur (Toma, Alexandru, Dascalu, Dessus ve Matu, 2017). Tabu oyunu daha önceden hazırlanmış ve içerisinde ana kelime ve kullanılması yasak üç kelime olan kartlarla oynanır.…”

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