PIRATE OF WORD KING MOBILE APP & MODULE: PHONICS & BASIC LITERACY
BOOTH NO : E4
Category : Education & Human Development
Reading and writing are two main barriers for students with dyslexia (Ndombo et al., 2013). The students have difficulties in word recognition, discriminate and manipulate sounds correspond to letters and blending the sounds of all the letters together to form a word.
Digital technology-based tools are able to engage students, making teaching and learning process interactive and enjoyable. There is limited mobile learning application based on primary school syllabus for English Language in Malaysia.
Many teachers and parents are inadequate to teach phonics and basic literacy skills; thus a comprehensive and easy-to-use learning app complete with a teaching module is able to address their needs.
Therefore, the purpose of this mobile learning application known as The Pirate of Word King is developed to meet the specific learning difficulties of students with dyslexia in reading, spelling and writing besides helping teachers and parents.
The deficits in basic reading skills lead to poor academic achievement and higher chances to drop out from school. Educators should adopt vary strategies or interventions to assist students with dyslexia in mastering the literacy skills. If left untreated, they will develop low self-esteem and emotional distractibility. Phonics approach is the most promising approach to increase accuracy of word reading. Recent research reveals that assistive technology has become the favorite choices among the leaners with dyslexia. However, teachers are not trained to teach English language and phonics. The apps online are not comprehensive and lack guidelines for them to use. Therefore, the current innovation complete with a teaching module would address the current dire needs of teachers. Parents and children with dyslexia and any typically developing children can benefit from this innovation to acquire the foundation of learning English language.
Students who are learning English at the foundation level, i.e acquiring phonics and basic literacy skills in reading and writing. Students who are struggling with reading task especially students with Dyslexia
The number of young children is exceeding 400,000 for each age level and students with Dyslexia in Malaysia is around 314,000, total more than 3million, in Malaysia only. How about other ASEAN countries? It is a huge market out there.
Educational Apps is a significant alternative to learning. Eg. Duck Duck Moose: 22 apps in 6 years, 0.6 mil downloads, USD$7 million funded
Our analysis from a market survey has convincing results to show the dire needs for such app.
The percentage of children age five to seventeen years old who use the Internet is 52.5%. Of the children who access the Internet own, 56.3% a device themselves (from MCMC), 2021)
This app together with a teaching module has a unique advantage to address the needs of children who are early learner of English as a Second language especially children with Dyslexia as well as teachers and parents
Transliteration with explanation in Malay, Chinese and Tamil to overcome some language barriers of the users. All the learning materials, features and interface are developmentally appropriate for preschool children until Year 2 or 3.
Commercialized the learning mobile app in Google Play Store / App Store
Apply Freemium as a Business Model, offers basic features for free to users, supplemental / advanced features are charged a low premium cost.
Offer 5-in-1 package with low cost
Another alternative learning mobile app for users to choose; Able to function with or without internet.
Provides a "free trial" version for the user before the premium version
Low cost for the premium version.
Easy to download from the platform
There are many apps in the market, but none of the apps cover a full range of all the basic 46 English sounds to form words, and basic reading, spelling and writing, provide transliteration in Chinese, Malay and Tamil.
None of the apps come with a teaching module to guide users. Our app comes with a teaching module to guide users besides pirate games and immediate responds on performance.
Combines three language skills (reading, spelling, writing) in an app; Employ analogy technique for sound that difficult to pronounce
Available in Android and IOS operating system
Providing Summary Performances; have learning & practice session together; contents according KSSR English Language
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