COIMBATORE: Final-year BA English Literature students of Government Arts College (Autonomous), Coimbatore, have developed 11 game-based mobile applications to help Class 6 students learn important topics from the Class 6 English subject of Tamil Nadu School Textbook, under the guidance of faculty members.
Associate Professor G Subramaniam told TNIE that the applications, which cover 11 topics, use a play-way approach to help students learn vocabulary, grammar, sentence formation and others.
He said the aim is to reinforce classroom lessons, encourage independent practice, support revision, and help students develop greater confidence in English and prepare better for examinations.
"For instance, the first application titled Jungle Safari covers the chapter on nouns. Once students click 'Start', they will find five sections covering English topics — nouns, pronouns and nouns, adjectives and adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions, and interjections, along with a mixed section. If students click on 'Nouns' under 'Welcome to Jungle', they can play a game identifying what nouns are and which words are nouns through five questions," he explained.
"Similarly, students can play games based on 11 topics from the textbook using these applications. To reach more students, we have prepared a QR-code booklet, which will be distributed to schools after the applications are launched on the college campus on Thursday," he said.
Another associate professor said though the workshops are usually conducted for final-year students, this time the faculty decided to develop game-based applications such as Word Power, as today's children are growing up in a technology-oriented environment and such applications can make learning easier.
"Since the students had to design the applications, the faculty members first learnt how to develop mobile applications through self-learning on online platforms, and we also achieved results. Later, we prepared a format to teach application development to the final-year students. A total of 44 students were involved.
They were divided into 11 teams, topics were assigned to each team, and they developed the applications from September 2 to October 22," he said.
He pointed out that these applications would help Class 6 students learn English book in a simple way.