Learning Kadazan For Kids

Learning Kadazan for Children is a mobile application on Android smart phones that is aimed as an alternative to books as learning tools where children can widen their vocabularies and improve their spellings on Kadazan words. This is an effort to counter the declining rate of this language usage in Sabah especially of the Kadazan-borned children. The development platform of this application is the Android operating system. The target users are the children of the Kadazan community from the age of seven to twelve years old. Parents who own Android smart phone may assist their children in using the application and in learning as well. Basic contents of the application are lessons and exercises on numbers, colours, phrases, greetings, and objects. The difficulty level of the exercises in the application will be par to the user‟s age. The development methodology used in this project is Rapid Application Development method that is suitable for prototyping purposes. Moreover, interviews with native speakers will contribute greatly to this project as they can provide more accurate details of the language itself. Prototypes will be released for testing from time to time to chosen testers to ensure correct usage of language, asthetics values of system and ensure all functionalities are present.