Development of Computer Assisted System for Teaching & Learning Japanese

本项目在今年完成了以下两项发展。(1)教材数据库的进一步开发。开发了以下子数据库。汉字词典数据库（7000个字母）日历汉字数据库（4000个字母）词库（包括《日语基础词典》3000多个单词和专业学术术语10万多个单词）阅读文本数据库（十本教科书、小说、文章和书籍）电影剧本数据库（著名系列电影《大东子和鹤代》的40个文本剧本）同时还开发了子数据库的相互参考和统计功能。这个项目的几个成员访问了热衷于日语教育的国家（新西兰、新加坡）和非英语国家（泰国和意大利），调查他们对日语教育的需求和使用这个数据库系统的能力。(2)开发一套使用数据库的实用软件。开发了以下软件：搜索实用工具的汉字，词，用法，特殊的词和文本。学习软件（学习阅读，从电影中学习）也为用户编写了使用这些功能的手册。原型系统的可行性和评估研究在以下国家进行：美国、英国、加拿大、意大利、新西兰、新加坡和泰国。除上述发展外，作为项目去年的一项活动，公开介绍了项目的成果，并展示了数据库及其实用软件。根据国外用户的反应以及可行性和评估研究的结果，该数据库显示出它可能是支持日语学习者从初级到高级水平的优秀系统。

Following two developments had accomplished by this project, in this year.(1) The further development of the database of teaching materials. The following sub-database were developed. Dictionary database of Kanji (7,000 letters) Hitsujun database of Kanji (4,000 letters) Word database (including over 3,000 worde from Basic Japanese Dictionary and over 100,000 words from technical and academic terms.) Text database for readings (ten textbooks, novels, articles and books.) Movie script database (forty text scripts of the famous movie series "Otoko wa Tsuraiyo".) The mutual reference and statistics of sub-databases were also developed this tear. Several of this project had visited the countries which were enthusiastic in Japanese education (New Zealand, Singapore) and the non English countries (Thai and Italy) to investigate their needs for Japanese education and abilities to use this database system.(2) the development of the set of utility softwares to use the database. Following softwares were developed. search utilities for Kanji, word, usage, special word and text. Learning softwares (Learning Reading, Learning from movies) Manuals to use these features were also written down for users. Feasibility and evaluation studies of the prototype system were conducted in following countries : USA, UK, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore and Thai.In addition to above developments, as an last year's activity of the project, the public presentation was conducted to report the outcomes of the project and to demonstrate the database and its utility softwares. According to the reaction from users of foreign countries and the results of feasibility and evaluation studies, this database shown itself as possible outstanding systems to support the japanese learners from beginning level to advanced level.