EVALUATION OF DIGITAL GAMES FOR LITERACY

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Natália Taís Scherer
Kári Lúcia Forneck

Abstract

This work seeks to evaluate freely accessible digital games, available to exercise the alphabetic principle. In order to support the analyses, we assumed the theoretical scope of Psycholinguistics to conceptualize phonological awareness and the alphabetic principle. To evaluate the games, we adapted the Pedagogical Software Assessment Protocol (PASP), by Ribeiro (2013), selecting five of the eleven criteria proposed by the author. The analyzes were carried out based on the selection of three different digital platforms, from which the three games most accessed by users were chosen, totaling nine games evaluated in total. The results revealed gaps in certain literacy games, especially when seeking activities to develop phonological awareness. In general, digital literacy games are not enough to teach children how to read and write. In some cases, the materials can, at most, serve as a subsidy to practice some knowledge already learned under the teacher's mediation. Without teaching intervention, therefore, there is no guarantee of development of the alphabetic principle through any digital game analyzed.

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SCHERER, Natália Taís; FORNECK, Kári Lúcia. EVALUATION OF DIGITAL GAMES FOR LITERACY. Caderno Seminal, Rio de Janeiro, n. 50, 2024. DOI: 10.12957/seminal.2024.83906. Disponível em: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/cadernoseminal/article/view/83906. Acesso em: 1 may. 2025.
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“Formação de professores, currículo, leitura, escrita e uso das tecnologias em Educação”
Author Biography

Kári Lúcia Forneck, Universidade do Vale do Taquari - Univates

Possui graduação em Letras pela Univates (2002), mestrado em Letras pela PUCRS (2006) e doutorado em Letras pela PUCRS (2016). É professora titular na Universidade do Vale do Taquari - Univates, onde atua como docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino e dos Cursos de Letras e de Pedagogia. Tem experiência nos seguintes temas: ensino da leitura e da escrita, processamento da compreensão leitora e processos inferenciais pragmáticos. Desenvolve, ainda, pesquisas sobre o ensino de línguas mediado por tecnologias digitais.