Sea Animals English – Thai Picture Vocabulary Game Computer Development on mobile android operating system

Abstract

          The objective of the study were: 1) to develop a computer game application for English marine picture vocabulary on the Android operating system; and
2) to compare the learning achievements of Grade 5 students before and after leaming English marine picture vocabulary on the Android operating system using the computer game application. The sample group comprised 30 Grade 5 students from Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University's Demonstration School in the first semester of the academic year 2021, selected by using Cluster Random Sampling: CRS. There were two types of research instruments in this study: the computer game application on English marine picture vocabulary on the Android operating system and the English vocabulary knowledge 20-item test consisting of four multiple-choice questions for Grade 5 students on Android operating system mobile phones. In the first part of the research procedure, the computer game application was developed. The application was designed and developed by employing the five phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC: 1) Requirements, 2) Analysis, 3) Design, 4) Development, and 5) Test and Maintenance. The tool used in the development was MIT App Inventor, and the database was tinyDB. The developed system consisted of two subsystems, namely the learning system and the gaming system. Hypothesis testing was conducted in the second part of the research procedure to compare the learning achievements of Grade 5 students before and after learning English marine picture vocabulary on the Android operating system using the computer game application. The statistic utilized in hypothesis testing was the dependent t-test.

          The results showed that:
          1) the computer game application on English marine picture vocabulary on the Android operating system can be developed, and the application users can learn and play English vocabulary games;
          2) the vocabulary learning achievements of the students who played vocabulary games via the application showed that the score after learning through the computer game application was higher than the score before learning. with statistical significance at the .01 level.