Portuguese Foundation Graphogame: preliminary results

Abstract

The Portuguese Foundation Graphogame is an adaptation of the Graphogame software to European Portuguese. The Graphogame contributes to reading and spelling acquisition. It has been designed and implemented for different languages with results that reveal that this is an effective tool to the reading and spelling acquisition. In this paper the methodology adopted in Portuguese Graphogame and the results of its implementation in schools are described.CIEC – Research Centre on Child Studies, IE, UMinho (FCT R&D unit 317), PortugalNational Funds through the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) and co-financed by European Regional Development Funds (FEDER) through the Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Program (POCI) with the reference POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007562info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio