Educational software to enhance English language teaching in primary school

摘要

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in primary schools allowed to exploit the potential of these technologies as a means of assisting students in their learning process. Nowadays, with the use of ICT, the student is becoming aware of the processes and strategies that use. The present work has the main purpose to improve the teaching/learning process. Thus, the student with difficulties in learning a foreign language acquires initiative and confidence to study and learn. This educational software is intended for a target audience between 8 and 10 years, which will develop a set of activities namely the writing, identify and recognize letters, words, phrases, numbers, and colors. The present educational resource will cover several knowledge fields: Numbers, Colors, Family, Time and Hours, which will be support by different media tools: video, audio, images and text. Each unit curricular has a game, and quizzes in which the child will reply a set of questions, where the degree of difficulty increases throughout the unit curricular. This acquisition of knowledge is done through voice recognition, speech and handwriting. The multimedia contents are displayed with videos and sound. The student can undertake a self-assessment of knowledge acquired through the study of English and the teachers can use the software for assessment.