Essential english vocabulary: maintaining entertainment in educational game with kinect xbox 360

ABSTRACT Essential English Vocabulary: Maintaining Entertainment in Educational Game with Kinect XBOX 360 Pervasiveness of technology, continuous evaluation of educational tools and the mode of knowledge delivery, necessitate the need of integrating game into educational environment due to its fun nature. Having lot of the fun catching games coming from commercial games, while those considered educational the pedagogy ended up distorting the fun nature of the game. Language Learning (LL) is one of the educational field that welcome the idea of game integration. Kinect Xbox 360 is the tool selected in this thesis to serve as an integrated device that provide the fun needed for the educational game. Many researchers reported the effectiveness of Kinect in different learning fields but its effectiveness in maintaining the fun were limited or not available especially in classroom implementation. Therefore, this thesis set the target of finding the effectiveness of using Kinect Xbox 360 in maintaining the entertaining nature of games in Language Learning to achieve that the target was broken into three hypotheses; Is there any significant difference in the participant's achievement between the pre-application and the post-application? Is there any significant difference in the participant's motivation between the pre-application and the post-application? What is the participant's perception? To get such answers achievement test, motivational test, and open-ended questions were implemented. Essential English Vocabulary (EEV) application were develop and integrated with Kinect Xbox 360 for effective implementation. The results support the hypothesis which indicated that there is a significant difference after the implementation of the application and positive reaction were recorded from the participants through the open-ended question. The result proved that with the integration of Kinect into educational games learner's achievement and motivation can improve and the Kinect has the potentiality of improving the learner's fun status. Key words: Entertainment, Educational game, Kinect, Achievement, Motivation