(Entertainment-NewsWire.com, June 11, 2012 ) Atlanta, GA – It’s been long since memorizing long lists of complex words and their definitions has been rendered totally useless as a tool of improving vocabulary and writing skills. Rather, a new method has been instated that addresses the need of both children and adults to learn new words in a fun way: word board games. Past and recent studies have pointed out that children have better retention of words over time when playing word games than when instructed with conventional classroom teaching techniques. Also, word games have other advantages over classroom instruction: fun factor, development of writing skills, social abilities and self-esteem.
Project Lexicon is a free resource that supports a wide variety of board games, starting with the most popular Scrabble, Super Scrabble and Words with Friends, but also Literati, WordWise, DroidWords, Wordscraper and Wordfeud. Players should enter the letters they have on the rack and the already existing words on the board, and gain access to the complete list of the top scoring words, along with their definitions. Project Lexicon will search through all possible combinations and return the top scoring results that can be played on a particular board. Rather than cheating, this is an efficient strategy of not only learning new words, but also improving writing skills and learn to be a better player.
“Word games are known as efficient methods for keeping the brain sharp and optimally performing in time. In fact, without constant stimulation and creative activity, the brain is likely to become less and less inclined to learning new words, developing new writing skills and assimilating new knowledge. Scrabble and Words with Friends are just of two of the many popular board games to provide this kind of stimulation and boost intelligence”, says owner of Project Lexicon.
The tool provided by Project Lexicon is very easy to use and intuitive, making it simple even for first-time players to make good use of it. Aside from preparing themselves to defeat even the most creative of opponents, users of Project Lexicon will engage in a friendly and fun competition while learning the lexical meaning, spelling and structure of simple, as well as complex words.
Project Lexicon supports the following dictionaries for words and definitions: the ENABLE (Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon), the OSPD4 (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary) and SOWPODS (Official Scrabble Words), as well as several others.
To start improving your language and writing skills, as well as become the best at interactive word board games, please visit http://www.projectlexicon.com.
