Designing Learning Games and Tools for Karelian Language - Considerations Based on Beginners' Experiences of Gameplay
According to our knowledge, there are only few existing mobile games for learning Viena Karelian dialect and culture. Karelian is classified as a minority and endangered language. Different actions for revitalizing the Karelian language and culture have been made during the several past years in Fin...
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| description | According to our knowledge, there are only few existing mobile games for learning Viena Karelian dialect and culture. Karelian is classified as a minority and endangered language. Different actions for revitalizing the Karelian language and culture have been made during the several past years in Finland and Russia. However, more effort is needed, especially to developed digital and easily accessible ways to learn and teach Karelian. This paper presents simple games developed for beginners to learn Viena Karelian. We also present findings from a small-scale user study. In addition, we propose a concept idea of the tool for teachers to create simple learning exercises. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dafe9a84c171494d82e89edd61cd45b52022-12-21T23:02:15ZengFRUCTProceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT2305-72542343-07372021-01-0128131410.23919/FRUCT50888.2021.9347578Designing Learning Games and Tools for Karelian Language - Considerations Based on Beginners' Experiences of GameplayLeena Arhippainen0Paula Alavesa1University of Oulu, FinlandUniversity of Oulu, FinlandAccording to our knowledge, there are only few existing mobile games for learning Viena Karelian dialect and culture. Karelian is classified as a minority and endangered language. Different actions for revitalizing the Karelian language and culture have been made during the several past years in Finland and Russia. However, more effort is needed, especially to developed digital and easily accessible ways to learn and teach Karelian. This paper presents simple games developed for beginners to learn Viena Karelian. We also present findings from a small-scale user study. In addition, we propose a concept idea of the tool for teachers to create simple learning exercises.https://www.fruct.org/publications/fruct28/files/Arh.pdfgamificationgame developmentminority languagekarelian languageserious gamesuser experienceviena karelian |
| spellingShingle | Leena Arhippainen Paula Alavesa Designing Learning Games and Tools for Karelian Language - Considerations Based on Beginners' Experiences of Gameplay Proceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT gamification game development minority language karelian language serious games user experience viena karelian |
| title | Designing Learning Games and Tools for Karelian Language - Considerations Based on Beginners' Experiences of Gameplay |
| title_full | Designing Learning Games and Tools for Karelian Language - Considerations Based on Beginners' Experiences of Gameplay |
| title_fullStr | Designing Learning Games and Tools for Karelian Language - Considerations Based on Beginners' Experiences of Gameplay |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing Learning Games and Tools for Karelian Language - Considerations Based on Beginners' Experiences of Gameplay |
| title_short | Designing Learning Games and Tools for Karelian Language - Considerations Based on Beginners' Experiences of Gameplay |
| title_sort | designing learning games and tools for karelian language considerations based on beginners experiences of gameplay |
| topic | gamification game development minority language karelian language serious games user experience viena karelian |
| url | https://www.fruct.org/publications/fruct28/files/Arh.pdf |
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