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
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