A Fundamental Study of an Electronic Dictionary and Transforming System of Japanese Wordprocessing for Primary/Secondary School Use

本研究是基于1989年至1990年历时两年的研究项目进行的。1.教学用日语文字处理机基础电子词典的研制：分析了学校教材中的词汇，确定了中小学用词典的编制框架和设计方案。完整的词典是软盘式词典，由单词词典(291KB)和汉字词典(74KB)组成。大约有20,000个单词可供检索。这本词典一直受到中小学教师的好评。现在我们正计划让中小学生使用这本词典，以提高它的可靠性。关于转制的讨论：从合作学校的研究结果来看，对于仍在m…的学生，最好引进日本的文森转制。他们学习日语的发展阶段较多。Bunsetsu转换系统可以自动将用日语平假名书写的单词转换为日语汉字和平假名混合的单词。对于他们的阐述，必须进行研究，澄清这一观点。手写与文字处理机写作的区别：从两个作文班的比较研究看，一个班用手写作文，另一个班用文字处理机写作文，表现出一些显著的差异。使用文字处理的写作比手写更能激发学生的积极性，也更方便学生改写。此外，在用文字处理机写的作文中，使用汉字和成语的次数要比手写作文多得多，而且每篇作文的篇幅都比手写长。然而，值得注意的是，一些教师指出了汉字书写和手写作文的重要性。日语输入句子分析系统的开发：我们开发了一个使用个人计算机系统进行日语输入句子分析的软件。它可以搜索汉字和习语，将它们归类到特定的组，并自动计算数量。该系统的开发将对该领域的研究起到推动作用。实践证明，该系统可以应用于实际的日语教学中。较少

This study is based on the project which has been carried out for two years from 1989 to 1990. The result of the project is as follows :1. Development of a Basic Electronic Dictionary of a Japanese Wordprocessor for Teaching and Learning :The authors have anallzed the vocabularies in school textbooks to set framework and a design for making the dictionary for elementary and secondary school use. The completed dictionary is a floppy disk type, which is consisted of word dictionary (291KB) and kanji dictionary (74 KB). Approximately 20,000 words are ready to be retrieved. This dictionary has been getting a good reputation from the primary and secondary school teachers. Now we are planning to let primary and secondary school students use the dictionary to improve its reliability.2. Discussion on Transforming System :From the result of researches conducted at cooperative schools, it is preferable to introduce the Japanese Bunsetsu transforming system for the students who are still in the m … More iddle of developing stage in their learning Japanese. The Bunsetsu transforming system can convert a word written in Japanese Hiragana into a word mixed with Japanese Kanji and Hiragana automatically. For their elaborated research must be done for clarifying this point of view.3. Differences between Writing by Hand and Writing with a Wordprocessor :From the comparative study between two composition classes ; one class wrote composition by hand and another wrote using a wordprocessor, some prominent differences has been shown. Writing composition with a wordprocessing could motivate students more than hand writing, and was more convenient for students when they have to rewrite. Furthermore, in the compositions written with a word processor, number of using Kanji and idiom are much larger and the each amount of composition was longer than those of hand writing. However, it is notable that some teachers pointed out the importance of kanji larning and composition writing by hand writing.4. Development of Analyzing System of Japanese Input Sentences :We have developed a software for analyzing Japanese input sentences using a personal computer system. It can search Kanjis and idioms, categorize them into certain groups, and count the number automatically. The development of this system could encourage the researches in this field. It proved that this system could be applied into practical Japanese language education. Less