Technology on Our Side: Using Technology for Transferring Cognitive Science to Education

The impact of integrating Jolly Phonics Lessons application into English literacy lessons on UAE preschoolers’ phonics skills

“…Findings from the current research indicate that extensive reading, backed-up with purposeful e-learning games, digital stories, and activities offered in the Jolly Phonics application, were effective for building students' phoneme blending and segmenting skills. The findings verify studies of researchers (Aleven et al, 2016;Cullata et al, 2022;Gee, 2018;Reichert & Mouza, 2018;Vanden et al 2021;Vega, 2016;Wei et al, 2018;Zugarramurdi et al, 2022) who highlighted that children benefit from the Jolly Phonics Lessons application's interactive features, aside from intensive independent practice, contributes in the development of the blending and segmenting competencies.…”

“…This indicates that Group-A performed better compared to the Group-B. This supports the study stating that digital applications improve the cognitive capacity required for learning the letter blending skill through highly interactive multisensory integration of learning experiences, which captures their interest and attention by using colorful graphics, engaging animations, and appealing audio inputs (Zugarramurdi et al, 2022). The Jolly Phonics Lessons application is designed intentionally to best represent characters and sounds to enhance students' memory, develop vocabulary acquisition, and improve recall abilities to help them master the phoneme blending skill (Vanden et al, 2021).…”