Kahoot! From a Behaviourist to a Social Constructivist Perspective: Enhancing Learning in the Primary EFL Classroom
Alpeque [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] Kahoot! has meanwhile become a quite well-known online platform for game-based learning, one can also refer to it as a „student response system” (Licorish et al., 2018, p. 1). The teacher just has to sign up for free to prepare a quiz tailored to the students‘ learning needs. To start the quiz the teacher projects it on a screen. The students themselves can simply join the game via a pin code on a device with online access (most probably the traditional PC, an iPad or smartphone). As soon as the questions pop up on the shared screen, all players choose between four possible answers highlighted in different colours on their own device (Kahoot, 2019). I first used Kahoot! in a German primary school for EFL teaching by creating vocabulary quizzes for my class. I displayed either the German or English words, or simply pictures so that the students had to choose the corresponding vocabulary. From a peda...