Presentation 2018-03-19
Comparison of effectiveness of mobile application to improve Chinese tone pronunciation ability
MingSung Kang, Atsushi Ito,
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Abstract(in English) Many teaching materials on Chinese pronunciation and electronic teaching materials are focused on imitation exercises of simple Chinese conversation. However, it is easy to discourage the training of elements called "tone", which is important in semantic communication in Chinese. For this reason, incorrect pronunciation wears, progress of learning is often stalled. Therefore, in order to solve these problems, we are developing a learning application of tone that emphasizes on correctly acquiring "tone" by following the order which is missing in the past teaching materials. This application uses a collection of sensing problems that are thought to be effective for the learning of four kinds of Chinese tone words that were created based on the sensing experiments we conducted. In this paper, we describe the effectiveness of our application by evaluating the improvement of tonal pronunciation ability by using general Chinese teaching materials and the sensory training application developed by us.
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Keyword(in English) Chinese Language Study / Tone Language / Pronunciation Study / Sensory Training / Learning Tool
Paper # TL2017-69
Date of Issue 2018-03-12 (TL)

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Committee TL
Conference Date 2018/3/19(1days)
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Place (in English) Waseda University
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Topics (in English) Theme 1 : Language and Learning, Learning Language, Theme 2: Abduction of meaning, "Ba" in Co-Creation, Abduction and Innovation, Theme 3: Interpretation, Translation, Theory of linguistic relativity and hospitality communication
Chair Masami Suzuki(KDDI Research)
Vice Chair Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics)
Secretary Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Chiaki Kubomura(Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Assistant Nobuyuki Jincho(Waseda Univ.) / Noriaki Takada(Ferris Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Thought and Language
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Comparison of effectiveness of mobile application to improve Chinese tone pronunciation ability
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Chinese Language Study
Keyword(2) Tone Language
Keyword(3) Pronunciation Study
Keyword(4) Sensory Training
Keyword(5) Learning Tool
1st Author's Name MingSung Kang
1st Author's Affiliation Utsunomiya University(Utsunomiya Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Atsushi Ito
2nd Author's Affiliation Utsunomiya University(Utsunomiya Univ.)
Date 2018-03-19
Paper # TL2017-69
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) TL-519
Page pp.pp.57-62(TL),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-03-12 (TL)