Vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / Lilly Metom ... [et al.]
This paper presents a survey study of an innovation project, titled ‘VOCATHON’. It is a language board game that is specifically designed for learning vocabulary at the tertiary level by adapting the psychological basis of Multiple Intelligences Theory by Howard Gardner. Past research has identified...
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| description | This paper presents a survey study of an innovation project, titled ‘VOCATHON’. It is a language board game that is specifically designed for learning vocabulary at the tertiary level by adapting the psychological basis of Multiple Intelligences Theory by Howard Gardner. Past research has identified that learners’ predominant intelligences are significant predictors for language learning that can be manipulated to motivate acquisition and obtain effective outcomes. Vocabulary learning is a crucial process of language acquisition, in which it engages learners’ knowledge of word definitions, word formation, collocation, synonyms, and etc. This innovation project comprises a set of board game, which includes lexicons from two fields of discipline, namely, Social Sciences and Science and Technology. This project focuses on the employment of providing the learners with vocabulary items that reflect their multiple intelligences. For this purpose, this study aims to identify the diploma students’ acceptance and feedback of the board game by employing the survey method towards the learning of vocabulary through the use of VOCATHON. Based on the survey conducted after playing the board game, the majority of the participants gave positive responses. VOCATHON is asserted to be an effective and practical language board game because it is able to manipulate learners’ multiple intelligences as a learning strategy for enhancing their vocabulary skills and motivating their interest in the learning process. By adapting the right approach, it is important to guide students with diverse multiple intelligences in acquiring vocabulary in order to make language learning more effective and fun. |
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| spelling | uitm-326132022-08-26T09:12:59Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32613/ Vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / Lilly Metom ... [et al.] ijsms Metom, Lilly Alfred Tom, Amelia Joe, Saira Rozaimie, Awang Multimedia systems Programming. Rule-based programming. Backtrack programming Interactive computer systems This paper presents a survey study of an innovation project, titled ‘VOCATHON’. It is a language board game that is specifically designed for learning vocabulary at the tertiary level by adapting the psychological basis of Multiple Intelligences Theory by Howard Gardner. Past research has identified that learners’ predominant intelligences are significant predictors for language learning that can be manipulated to motivate acquisition and obtain effective outcomes. Vocabulary learning is a crucial process of language acquisition, in which it engages learners’ knowledge of word definitions, word formation, collocation, synonyms, and etc. This innovation project comprises a set of board game, which includes lexicons from two fields of discipline, namely, Social Sciences and Science and Technology. This project focuses on the employment of providing the learners with vocabulary items that reflect their multiple intelligences. For this purpose, this study aims to identify the diploma students’ acceptance and feedback of the board game by employing the survey method towards the learning of vocabulary through the use of VOCATHON. Based on the survey conducted after playing the board game, the majority of the participants gave positive responses. VOCATHON is asserted to be an effective and practical language board game because it is able to manipulate learners’ multiple intelligences as a learning strategy for enhancing their vocabulary skills and motivating their interest in the learning process. By adapting the right approach, it is important to guide students with diverse multiple intelligences in acquiring vocabulary in order to make language learning more effective and fun. Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak 2019-10 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32613/1/432613.pdf Metom, Lilly and Alfred Tom, Amelia and Joe, Saira and Rozaimie, Awang (2019) Vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / Lilly Metom ... [et al.]. (2019) International Journal of Service Management and Sustainability (IJSMS) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/International_Journal_of_Service_Management_and_Sustainability_=28IJSMS=29.html>, 4 (2). pp. 1-20. ISSN 2550-1569 http://www.ijsmssarawak.com/ |
| spellingShingle | Multimedia systems Programming. Rule-based programming. Backtrack programming Interactive computer systems Metom, Lilly Alfred Tom, Amelia Joe, Saira Rozaimie, Awang Vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / Lilly Metom ... [et al.] |
| title | Vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / Lilly Metom ... [et al.] |
| title_full | Vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / Lilly Metom ... [et al.] |
| title_fullStr | Vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / Lilly Metom ... [et al.] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / Lilly Metom ... [et al.] |
| title_short | Vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / Lilly Metom ... [et al.] |
| title_sort | vocathon – the usefulness of board games in vocabulary learning through the multiple intelligences approach / lilly metom ... [et al.] |
| topic | Multimedia systems Programming. Rule-based programming. Backtrack programming Interactive computer systems |
| url | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32613/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32613/ |