• DocumentCode
    119555
  • Title

    Melody Touch: A game for learning English from songs

  • Author

    Kitichaiwat, Purinut ; Thongsuk, Mananya ; Ngamsuriyaroj, Sudsanguan

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Mahidol Univ., Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    26-27 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    13
  • Lastpage
    16
  • Abstract
    Melody Touch is an interactive game for learning English from songs. It combines the education and entertainment applications with the goal to help users improve their language skills by learning from songs. Melody Touch is developed on a tablet running Android operating system. The game consists of three main parts: the purchasing system, the game module and the review mistake session which has the key characteristics of allowing users to revise a set of vocabularies from song lyric after they finished playing. During playing, a user has to select one of given words to fill in a blank displayed as part of song lyric shown while listening to music. Words having the same sound (homophones) or the same meaning (synonyms) is chosen to be displayed. Thus, the game would help users improve the listening skill as well as the vocabularies in the song. The game plays any existing songs without connecting to the Internet, and songs in the game could be free songs or purchased songs available in the store.
  • Keywords
    Android (operating system); computer games; courseware; entertainment; music; natural language processing; notebook computers; operating systems (computers); purchasing; Android operating system; English learning; education application; entertainment application; game module; homophones; interactive game; language skills; melody touch; music; purchasing system; review mistake session; synonyms; tablet; Androids; Electronic publishing; Humanoid robots; Information services; Internet; Vocabulary; English listening skill; Learning through music; Vocabulary improvement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Student Project Conference (ICT-ISPC), 2014 Third ICT International
  • Conference_Location
    Nakhon Pathom
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-5572-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICT-ISPC.2014.6923207
  • Filename
    6923207