The Impact of Educational Casual Computer Games on Preschool EFL Learners’ English Language Achievement

Abstract

This thesis aims at discovering the benefits of incorporating the educational casual computer games into the EFLsettings.The purpose behind this is to explore a possibility of implementing this kind of innovation in language teaching approaches and curricula in an Armenian kindergarten.The study was carried out in the Armenian public kindergarten in Yerevan.Two groups were selected for the study. The focus group received the treatment with the use of casual computer games, whereas the comparison group practiced the language with the implementation of the traditional language games.From the results revealed via the pre and post-tests it could be inferred that the both experimental and the focus groups performed similarly during the pre and post-tests. Therefore, the treatment with the implementation of educational casual computer games did not give significant improvement in learners’ English language achievement, as compared with the control groups’ results. However, both groups indicated a significant improvement in the language proficiency from the pretest to the posttest in favor of posttest.