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Imitating a Hot Puzzle Game for English Vocabulary Exercise in E-book System

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Emerging Technologies for Education (SETE 2016)

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Pure memorization of English words are usually uninteresting and provides limited help to the improvement of English proficiency. This paper imitates the popular block elimination puzzle game of Candy Crush Saga to develop a similar mobile game about English vocabulary elimination. The proposed puzzle game in this paper is used as an integrated tool with an e-book reading system and is utilized for vocabulary practices and examinations. The design and implementation of the proposed tablet-based mobile game aims to make English vocabulary learning more interesting and motivated. The purpose is to provide a game-based tool for English as a Second Language (ESL) learners to improve their English learning efficiency.

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This work is supported in part by Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Applications, Fujian University of Technology, China and supported in part by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under grant MOST 103-2511-S-224-004-MY3, MOST 104-2511-S-224-003-MY3, and MOST 105-2628-S-224-001-MY3.

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  1. Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Applications, College of Information Science and Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, China

    Tien-Wen Sung

  2. Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliou, Taiwan

    Ting-Ting Wu

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  1. National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan

    Ting-Ting Wu

  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Rome, Italy

    Rosella Gennari

  3. National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Huang

  4. The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Haoran Xie

  5. MC Information Multimedia Communication AG, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Yiwei Cao

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Sung, TW., Wu, TT. (2017). Imitating a Hot Puzzle Game for English Vocabulary Exercise in E-book System. In: Wu, TT., Gennari, R., Huang, YM., Xie, H., Cao, Y. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_3

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