TY - GEN
T1 - An Adaptive Mobile Learning Application for Beginners to Learn Fundamental Japanese Language
AU - Ng, S. C.
AU - Lui, Andrew K.
AU - Wong, Y. K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - It is difficult for beginners to learn Japanese by self-learning because there is no teacher can give any guidance and feedback to them for improvement. Besides, most of the beginners may not have any basic knowledge of Japanese language, for example, Japanese alphabets or phonology, they don’t have any idea how to get start with and what should be learnt at the beginning. This paper introduces an Android mobile application for the beginners to acquire fundamental knowledge of Japanese language so as to gain the self-learning proficiency in Japanese. This application provides learning materials, auto-generated exercises, handwriting practice tool, voice recording and recognition tool for beginners to learn Japanese. Besides, this application proposes an adaptive learning system to users, which aims to provide different supplementary exercises or learning approaches to learner based on the current performance of an individual learner.
AB - It is difficult for beginners to learn Japanese by self-learning because there is no teacher can give any guidance and feedback to them for improvement. Besides, most of the beginners may not have any basic knowledge of Japanese language, for example, Japanese alphabets or phonology, they don’t have any idea how to get start with and what should be learnt at the beginning. This paper introduces an Android mobile application for the beginners to acquire fundamental knowledge of Japanese language so as to gain the self-learning proficiency in Japanese. This application provides learning materials, auto-generated exercises, handwriting practice tool, voice recording and recognition tool for beginners to learn Japanese. Besides, this application proposes an adaptive learning system to users, which aims to provide different supplementary exercises or learning approaches to learner based on the current performance of an individual learner.
KW - Android apps
KW - Learning Japanese Language
KW - Mobile learning application
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84922347171&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-46158-7_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-46158-7_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84922347171
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 20
EP - 32
BT - Technology in Education
A2 - Li, Kam Cheong
A2 - Cheung, Simon K.S.
A2 - Wong, Tak-Lam
A2 - Lam, Jeanne
A2 - Keung Ng, Kwan
T2 - 1st International Conference on Technology in Education, ICTE 2014
Y2 - 2 July 2014 through 4 July 2014
ER -