Factors for selection

and evaluation in
using board game
By Irene Tiong, Kok Jia Xuan, Phoebe Hon, Yap Sze Miin, Young Poh Ping

Types of Board Game

Scrabble
You have to arrange letters into words
on a playing board.
Letters earn you points and special tiles
on the board give you extra points.

Types of Board Game

Upwords
It is similar to Scrabble.
Pupils use their collection of letters to build words on the crossword
style grid.
Pupils can place letters on top of the exisiting letters to change a
word that is already on the board.
For example, pupil may add aT to the wordbashturning it intobath.

Types of Board Game

Monopoly
It is an interactive game that can
motivate pupils to learn.
Each player will take turn to throw the
dice and complete the task required
before moving on.

Factors
Level

Descriptions

Designed according to students

age
language level
interest
Content

Cater learners interest

Use related vocabulary

Use related cultures

Non-offensive content

Accessibility

Can be used easily with or without the teacher watching

Impact

Arouse pupils interest towards the topic

Strengths
1. Stimulate pupils congnitive development
Board games includes some type of strategy (Q&A, complete
the sentences, matching the word with correct acronyms and
etc)
Pupils learn best when they are engaged and having fun.

Strengths
2. Bring in relaxation and fun for pupils
Pupils reinforce their knowledge gained in a meaningful and
stress-free condition.
Lowering pupils affective filter (Stephen Krashens hypothesis
in ESL Acquisition)

Strengths
3. Develop pupils interpersonal skills and social skills
Board

game

promotes

an

exciting

atmosphere

of

communication and competition that encourages interaction

between peers.
Pupils will learn to be patience as they need to remember the
rules as well as when it is their turn to play the game.
Pupils self-esteem will be improved as well through positive
interaction with their peers.

Weaknesses
1. Instructions are too complicated to understand
Board game is more suitable for level 2 pupils as something
the instructions are too abstract for the pupils.
Pupils will get frustrated and refused to participate the board
game if they do not understand the instructions and rules.

Weaknesses
2. It is bored to keep on playing the game for hours upon hours.
Pupils have short attention span to wait for their turn.
Pupils will feel disinterest when playing the same game over
and over again.

Weaknesses

3. It is time-consuming and money-consuming

This can be proved when teacher is required to produce customised
board game for specific teaching and learning lesson.
The materials needed to produce an attractive and useful board game
are quite expensive (Printer catridge, mounting board and etc)
It challenges teachers creativity as well as teacher needs to consider
pupils proficiency level,
designing board game.

interest and many other factors when