Teaching Persian Alphabets and Words to the Preschool Children via a Mobile Game

Nowadays recent advancements of mobile technologies provide the opportunity to create various games and application for different users. One of the most important group of the application, which is entitled “Learning Games”, can transmit educational purposes in the context of a game. Teaching the alphabets and letters to the preschool children using a mobile game let them learn the educational concepts in a more attractive way. This paper tries to review some children learning games at first; then a new learning game will be introduced. The game is designed to teach Persian alphabets to the preschool children. Finally the aforementioned game will be evaluated in aspect of learning effectiveness. The result of this research can help the developers to create suitable learning apps for the children in a way that the educational concepts become involved in the game story.