Abstract
This paper describes Cipher – Faoi Gheasa, a ‘game with a purpose’ designed to support the learning of Irish in a fun and enjoyable way. The aim of the game is to promote language ‘noticing’ and to combine the benefits of reading with the enjoyment of computer game playing, in a pedagogically beneficial way. In this paper we discuss pedagogical challenges for Irish, the development of measures for the selection and ranking of reading materials, as well as initial results of game evaluation. Overall user feedback is positive and further testing and development is envisaged.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.cltw-1.11
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop within LREC2022
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Theodorus Fransen, William Lamb, Delyth Prys
- Venue:
- CLTW
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 77–84
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.cltw-1.11
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Monica Ward, and Liang Xu. 2022. Cipher – Faoi Gheasa: A Game-with-a-Purpose for Irish. In Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop within LREC2022, pages 77–84, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Cipher – Faoi Gheasa: A Game-with-a-Purpose for Irish (Uí Dhonnchadha et al., CLTW 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl24-info/2022.cltw-1.11.pdf