GAMIFYING LITERACY: USABILITY AND READING EXPERIENCE IN THE GRAPHOGAME APP

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Adriana Cavalcanti dos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Alves, Amanda Loyse da Silva, Araújo, Elisane Barbosa de, Santos, Nádson Araújo dos
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/5304
• topic: gamification; literacy; teaching; reading

The goals of this article are twofold: assessing GraphoGame Brasil’s usability and analyzing the reading experiences proposed by the application in a series of lessons based on phonics instruction. Results show that, in terms of usability, the application presupposes a user who is familiar with technology; in some cases, children needed the help of an adult to navigate the app because the initial images and animations did not provide enough information for them to use it independently. When it comes to the reading experience proposed, it is clear from the first lessons that the app mostly emphasizes repetition of sounds and identification of phonemes-graphemes without much context. This strategy can also be verified in the app’s other exercises.