Effect of an EFL listening comprehension learning game on phonemic awareness in French

Émilie Charles (1) , Émilie Magnat (2) , Marie-Pierre Jouannaud (3) , Coralie Payre-Ficout (4) , Mathieu Loiseau (1)

1 SICAL - Situated Interaction, Collaboration, Adaptation and Learning
2 ICAR - Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations
3 TransCrit - Transferts critiques anglophones
4 LIDILEM - LInguistique et DIdactique des Langues Étrangères et Maternelles

Luciole is an EFL listening comprehension learning game for 6–9-year-olds. Learners play the role of a French kid named Sasha recruited by a spy agency to help save animals. Sasha interacts mainly with native English-speaking people from all around the Bristish Isles who either speak English or French with a strong foreign accent. Luciole offers different activities. Some target thematic lexicon, others train specific phonological aspects of English difficult to apprehend for French learners. A first experiment showed that children who played Luciole developed their listening comprehension in English but also improved their phonological awareness (PA) in French. A new experiment has been designed to try to replicate the previous results and to explore their origin.

Mots clés: Serious game; EFL; Young learners; Phonemic awareness

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Linguistique

Émilie Charles, Émilie Magnat, Marie-Pierre Jouannaud, Coralie Payre-Ficout, Mathieu Loiseau. Effect of an EFL listening comprehension learning game on phonemic awareness in French. ATFLY 2022 – Advances in Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Learners, Sep 2022, Wuppertal, Germany. . ⟨hal-03865677⟩