Creating a Design Framework For Educational Language Games: A Hybrid Media Scenario Study

Recent years have seen growing interest in educational games. At the same time, there has been interest in the research of hybrid media. Hybrid media is a combination of print and electronic media. In this paper, we present a study on the design of educational language games for a hybrid media platform. Based on supportive studies and scenario research, we present a design framework with ten design guidelines which can be used to aid in the development of educational language games. The supportive studies consisted from literature review, focus group interview with four study book authors and informal examination of current educational language games. The scenario research consisted from interviewing six lower primary school teachers and 16 6th grade pupils.