A Smart Speaker Application to Assist Japanese Onomatopoeia Learning: A Prototype
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Takahiro Tagawa, Meng Jin, Kyushu University, Japan ; Hitoshi Inoue, College of Healthcare Management, Japan
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Las Vegas, NV, United States ISBN 978-1-939797-37-7 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA
Abstract
This paper describes the characteristics of smart speaker and how and why this device is expected to play new role in language learning. Next we describe the characteristics of words called “onomatopoeia”, and the difficulties in learning them. We build a prototype of the application for smart speakers to learn Japanese onomatopoeia, implemented as a simple quiz application that plays the audio file as the question and requests the learner to answer what onomatopoeia to be used to express the sound. Then we discuss the findings from the prototype, and the future vision of the application of smart speakers to be combined with other learning assistant/management systems.
Citation
Tagawa, T., Jin, M. & Inoue, H. (2019). A Smart Speaker Application to Assist Japanese Onomatopoeia Learning: A Prototype. In K. Graziano (Ed.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1124-1127). Las Vegas, NV, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 9, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/207785/.
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