Instruction on English penmanship applying virtual reality for elementary school children

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K18649
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 9:Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Shimane University
• Principal Investigator: hashitsume kazuharu 島根大学, 学術研究院教育学系, 教授 (70709740)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 伊賀崎 伴彦 熊本大学, 大学院先端科学研究部(工), 准教授 (70315282) ; 大谷 みどり 島根大学, 学術研究院教育学系, 教授 (80533299) ; 樋口 和彦 広島修道大学, 人文学部, 教授 (80710110)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-06-29 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 小学校外国語 / 書字技能 / アルファベット指導 / 書字の定量評価

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to develop a teaching method that allows all children, including dysgraphia, to learn the alphabet in a foreign language course at an elementary school.
For this reason, the research was divided into the development of a support system for children and the evaluation of the skill of children's writing skills. The support system memorizes and reproduces the instructor's writing movements using a force sense device, etc., and works on vision, hearing, etc. As a result of the research, we were able to develop a support system used for teaching the alphabet. Quantitative evaluation is to quantitatively evaluate the tracing skill, and the main components such as "stroke control power" are extracted from the features such as acceleration. Using these, we came to evaluate children's tracing skills.

Free Research Field

教科教育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

2021年度から，小学校外国語が導入された。これに至る過程で，外国語活動があり，国語科ではローマ字の指導がなされていた。
アルファベットの習得は，これらの基本であるが，習得が困難あるいは習得に時間がかかるなどの児童がいることは事実である。そこで，本研究で，アルファベットの指導の基礎となる各文字の評価や感覚刺激に働きかける新しい指導法を開発してきた。