Improving Reading Literacy with an Immersive Learning App
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56198/szzkx449Keywords:
App, Immersive Learning Environment (ILE), Letrinhas, Mobile Devices, ReadingAbstract
The acquisition of reading skills is of high importance for a student’s scholar success. However, we are facing a complex process and a significant number of 2nd year students still have specific learning difficulties. To answer this problem, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (Tomar, Portugal) in a partnership with Agrupamento de Escolas Artur Gonçalves (Torres Novas, Portugal) developed the information system Letrinhas. This system includes an app for mobile devices, a digital repository of educational contents and an information management system. The interactivity and the real-time feedback offered by the mobile app led to an unmatched learning environment that presents excellent learning results. Letrinhas’ architecture allows its adaption to the individual profile of each user and its sociocultural context. This puts the student at the center of the teaching and learning process. Teachers tested Letrinhas and its learning results were assessed. The evaluation’s success led to Letrinhas being used for teaching foreign languages and extended to other schools.
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