Luciole: The Design Story of a Serious Game for Learning English Created for (and with) Children

Anne-Laure Guinet, Audrey Serna, Léo Vanbervliet, Emilie Magnat, Marie-Pierre Jouannaud, Coralie Payre-Ficout, Mathieu Loiseau

2025

Abstract

In France, elementary school curriculum mandates 54 hours of foreign language instruction for pupils, typically English. However, many teachers feel linguistically insecure. Addressing this, we propose Luciole, a serious game designed to introduce 6 to 8-year-olds to English. Focused on oral comprehension, Luciole allows for autonomous use, facilitating differentiated activities. Luciole was developed through an iterative and inclusive series of design-development-user test-feedback analysis-redesign. Throughout this process, various methods were employed, including participatory workshops with children in the context of real classroom sessions. This article, through the description of the various design stages and successive prototypes, seeks to clarify a number of more general design issues related to serious learning games intended for use in the classroom, by pupils new to English, independently, and under the supervision of their teacher, who may be unfamiliar with the use of digital tools for learning.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Guinet A., Serna A., Vanbervliet L., Magnat E., Jouannaud M., Payre-Ficout C. and Loiseau M. (2025). Luciole: The Design Story of a Serious Game for Learning English Created for (and with) Children. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 380-391. DOI: 10.5220/0013285900003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu25,
author={Anne-Laure Guinet and Audrey Serna and Léo Vanbervliet and Emilie Magnat and Marie-Pierre Jouannaud and Coralie Payre-Ficout and Mathieu Loiseau},
title={Luciole: The Design Story of a Serious Game for Learning English Created for (and with) Children},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU},
year={2025},
pages={380-391},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013285900003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU
TI - Luciole: The Design Story of a Serious Game for Learning English Created for (and with) Children
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Guinet A.
AU - Serna A.
AU - Vanbervliet L.
AU - Magnat E.
AU - Jouannaud M.
AU - Payre-Ficout C.
AU - Loiseau M.
PY - 2025
SP - 380
EP - 391
DO - 10.5220/0013285900003932
PB - SciTePress