Effects of Integrating Total Physical Response into Kinect Technology on Learning English Vocabulary

• Main Authors: Chi-Chih Hsu, 徐吉志
• Other Authors: Nian-Shing Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62149435236509742209

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 資訊管理學系研究所 === 101 === Along with the trend of globalization, English learning has been an important educational issue in Asian countries. To enhance students’ English abilities, various instructional methods for English as Foreign Language (EFL) are used in school, among which the Total Physical Response (TPR) developed by James Asher (1966) is the mostly used and has been proven to improve various areas of English learning (Scott &; Ytreberg, 1990) . This study focuses on English vocabulary learning, intended to test whether the TPR method could improve the recognition of vocabulary, which is considered essential to building up reading ability. The study proposes an approach integrating Kinect technology into Total Physical Response (TPR) approach. To test the effectiveness of the proposed approach, the study including two groups, the Kinect-based TPR group and the conventional TPR group, was conducted. The results showed that there was significant difference between the two groups on the delay retention test of the vocabulary recognition, and the control group has significant decreased between post-test and delay-test. This finding implies that the Kinect-based TPR could increase students’ vocabulary recognition in the Kinect-assisted setting. In addition, those in the Kinect-based TPR group showed positive acceptance towards the proposed learning approach, and didn’t cause higher extraneous cognitive load.