1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of the multimedia database for Teaching & Learning Japanese
| Project/Area Number |
06044221
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Joint Research |
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| Research Institution | The National Institute for Education Research (1994, 1996)
Joetsu University of Education (1995) |
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Principal Investigator |
SAKAYAUCHI Masaru The National Institute for Educational Research, Researcher, 教育情報・資料センター, 主任研究官 (70187053)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYAGAWA Shigeru MIT,Professor, 外国語学部, 教授
RICHARD Harr メルボルン大学, 日本語中国語学部, 講師
UEDA Hatusmi University of Venezia, Lecturer, 語学センター, 講師
OHSO Mieko University of Nagoya, Professor, 言語文化部, 教授 (30262918)
KOYAMA Yoko Kansai Gaidai University, Professor, 留学生別科, 教授 (50271408)
NAKAJIMA Kazuko University of Toront, Professor, 東アジア研究科, 教授
MISHIMA Toshiko San francisco State University, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授
TOLLINI Aldo University of Pavia, Associate Professor, 政治学部, 準教授
KAISER Stefan University of Tsukuba, Professor, 文芸・言語学系, 教授 (20260466)
OIKAWA Akifumi The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Professor, 教育研究情報資料センター, 教授 (30091888)
YOSHIOKA Ryoei The National Institute for Education Research, Researcher, 教育情報・資料センター, 室長 (40200951)
KOMATSU Yukihiro The National Institute for Education Research, Researcher, 教育情報・資料センター, 室長 (50241229)
HARRISON Richard University of Melbourne, Lecturer
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| Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1996
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| Keywords | Japanese / Education for Learning Japanese / Personal Computer / Database / Machine Readable Dictionary / Movie Learning / CAI / コンピュータ |
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| Research Abstract |
Our project had developed the multimedia database for teaching and learning Japanese for three years.
The following the database of teaching and learning materials developed.
(1) Dictionary database of Kanji (about 6,000 letters)
(2) Hitsujun database of Kanji (about 4,000 letters)
(3) Basic word database (about 3,000 words from Basic Japanese Dictionary)
(4) Usage database (about 7,000 usages)
(5) Academic term database (about 100,000 words from technical and academic terms)
(6) Japanese-English dictionary (about 7,000 words from the Kodansha PAX dictionary)
(7) Text database for readings (about 90 textbooks, novels, articles, books and movie script)
Several members of this project had visited the countries to investigate their needs for Japanese education and abilities to use this database system.
Manuals to use these features were also written down for users. Feasibility and evaluation studies of the prototype system were conducted in following countries : USA,Canada, Italy, Australia and Japan.
In addition to above developments, as an last year's activity of the project, the public presentation was conducted to report the outcomes of the project and to demonstrate the database and its utility softwares.
According to the reaction from users of foreign countries and the results of feasibility and evaluation studies, this database shown itself as possible outstanding systems to support the Japanese learners from beginning level to advanced level.
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Research Products
(8 results)
