Using Interactive Multimedia to Teach Japanese to Scientists and Engineers

该奖项将支持开发一个交互式多媒体项目，向讲日语的科学家和工程师教授日语。这些材料将以与前往日本进行合作研究的个人相关的情况和环境为背景。学习者将接触到交互、角色和场景，方式与他/她体验这些事件的方式大致相同：随机(随着视频的前进，邀请用户停下来并选择各种选项)或选择性(随着动作吸引兴趣)。在模拟中，穿插着“事件”的将是基于乔登和野田(耶鲁大学出版社)的教科书“日语：口语”的核心对话的各种各样的语言练习。用户将能够有选择地获取比目前任何教科书都要详细得多的语言和文化背景信息。美国和日本的研究人员之间迫切需要更有效的交流。该项目将通过将最先进的技术与合理的语言教学原则相结合来帮助满足这一需求，以制作面向科学家和工程师的基于多媒体的日语教学程序。

This award will support development of an interactive multimedia program for the teaching of Japanese to English speaking scientists and engineers. The materials will be contextually grounded in situations and settings relevant to individuals going to Japan for the purpose of collaborative research. The learner will be exposed to interactions, characters, and scenarios in much the same way that she/he would experience these occurrences: randomly (as the video proceeds forward inviting the user to stop and select various options) or selectively (as action attracts interest). Interspersed with the "events" in a simulation will be a wide variety of linguistic exercises based on the core conversa- tions of the textbook, Japanese: The Spoken Language, by Jorden and Noda (Yale University Press). Users will be able to selectively access linguistic and cultural background information far more detailed than what is currently available in any textbook. There is a critical need for more effective communications between American and Japanese researchers. This project will help to address that need by integrating state-of-the art technology with sound principles of language pedagogy to produce a multimedia- based program of Japanese language instruction oriented to scientists and engineers.