Board games for language development of school beginners have both cognitive & non-cognitive benefit

Board games for language development of school beginners have visual discriminatory skill acquisition benefits too: Action research study

Lalit Kishore [1]

"contextually designed board games for sight vocabulary building with six words and two dices with visual and text codes in English played by four children with a worksheet to be filled move-wise, has both cognitive and non-cognitive skill development efficacy," says Dr Lalit Kishore whose paper "Literacy Board Games for School Beginners improve their Visual discrimination" [2} was accepted for Annual Conference of National Academy of Psychology held in 2008 at IIT, Guwahati.

Kishore (2008) through an action research study found that board games with six-words and two-dices , namely, visual dice and word dice, not only develop sight vocabulary but also visual discrimination and visual-motor coordination skills among the school beginners. The study also recommends use of worksheets to record the results of every throw of the dice for a codification of the experience

[1] Dr. Lalit Kishore then was working as senior fellow at CULP-NGO, Jaipur

[2] Kishore, L. (2008). Literacy Board Games for School Beginners improve their Visual discrimination, paper accepted for Annual Conference of National Academy of Psychology at IIT, Guwahatihave