JP2000105530A - Foreign language learning system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a foreign language learning system in which images, voices, and characters are mutually organically united for learning a foreign language such as English, thereby a large learning effect can be expected. SOLUTION: In a system for learning English by using a personal computer, when shower learning begins, a shower illustration moving pattern is selected at random, thereby illustrations for nine example sentences of one practice are sequentially displayed and the narration of the nine example sentences is loop-reproduced. A first click of the above illustration stops the movement of the illustration, and loop-reproduces the narration of its example sentence in each sentence. A second click of the above illustration displays an example text on the screen in English and Japanese while continuing the voice loop. A third click of the above illustration returns a process to the narration reproduction of the above nine example sentences and to the movement of the shower illustration again.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a foreign language learning system for supplementarily learning a foreign language such as English for study at school at home using a personal computer (personal computer).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, various learning methods have been put to practical use for learning the subjects studied at elementary schools, junior high schools, and the like at home using personal computers. Generally, a CD-R in which commentary on the main points, problems, etc. are stored in advance for each subject to be studied.
In this system, the OM is mounted on a CD-ROM device, and the contents stored in the CD-ROM are read out to a personal computer for learning. Learners (students) improve their academic ability by listening to commentary and then solving problems. In addition, in English learning, a tape recorder is also used.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned learning system, when learning a foreign language, for example, English, it is important to listen repeatedly, especially in a hearing. In the above-mentioned English learning, when trying to listen to a part of a coherent sentence, the conventional learning system must press a play button or the like each time, and therefore, the learner repeatedly performs the operation. There was a problem that the eyes were separated from the event every time, and it was not possible to concentrate on learning.

[0004] In addition, the conventional English learning system adds sound to English materials for learning grammar and developing reading comprehension. In other words, the sound is an additional sound, and a scrutiny of the materials for learning English through voice. And ingenuity was not made.

[0005] The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a foreign language learning system that can expect a great learning effect by fusing voice-letter with each other organically.

[0006]

A foreign language learning system according to the present invention comprises: shower illustration display means for sequentially moving and displaying shower illustrations corresponding to each example sentence of a foreign language in practice units in accordance with a moving pattern; A first reproducing unit that repeatedly reproduces the voice of the example sentence corresponding to the illustration to be moved and displayed in practice units, a specifying unit that selects and specifies an illustration to be moved on the screen, Second playback means for stopping the illustration when specified and loop-playing the audio of the example sentence corresponding to the illustration, and displaying the example sentence text corresponding to the illustration when the illustration is specified for the second time Means for displaying an example sentence text, and displaying the illustration when the illustration is designated for the third time. With return to the dynamic display state, the voice of sentences, characterized by comprising a means for returning to the state to play repeatedly by the practice units.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a learning system according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an input device such as a keyboard, a mouse, and the like. The main control unit 3 is connected to the calculation unit 4 and the display device 5 and the audio output device 6. The display device 5 includes a display controller 5a and a display 5b, and the audio output device 6 includes an audio controller 6a and a speaker 6b.

The main controller 3 includes a printer driver 7
Printer 8 is connected via a CD-ROM
A CD-ROM device 10 is connected via the controller 9. Further, the main controller 3 includes an HDD controller 11
The HDD device 12 is connected via the. The HDD device 12 includes, for example, a program storage unit 12a, an image / text information storage unit 12b, and a voice information storage unit 12c.

The CD-ROM device 10 has a learning C
A D-ROM is mounted. The learning CD-ROM previously stores a learning program, image / text information, audio information, and the like as learning information for each subject.
In particular, in learning foreign languages, for example, learning English, picture-voice-
The letters are fused organically with each other.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a basic screen configuration of shower learning for repeatedly listening to English sentences.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 21 denotes a display screen. A shower illustration display section 22 is provided at the center of the display screen 21, and a serif display section 23 is provided below the shower illustration display section 22. The shower illustration display section 22 sequentially displays, for example, nine illustrations for one practice. The shower illustration display unit 22 moves on the display screen 21 during learning. The movement pattern of the shower illustration display unit 22 includes, for example, (1) a pattern in which the size changes at the center position of the display screen 21 and temporarily stops at the center of the screen when it reaches a set value; A pattern in which the size changes while moving randomly in the screen 21 and temporarily stops at the center of the screen when it reaches the set value. (3) Through the inside of the screen from the four corners and the left and right outer sides of the display screen 21 The pattern that moves outward again (the size does not change),
Are randomly selected when learning is started.

The shower illustration display section 22 receives a mouse click, and the screen display state is changed by the click. For example, when the shower illustration display section 22 is clicked with a mouse, the first time, the shower illustration display section 22 is fixed at the center of the screen,
At the second time, texts of example sentences (English sentences and Japanese sentences) are displayed on the serif display unit 23. Then, the third click restarts the movement of the shower illustration display section 22. 1 above
After the first click, the narration is played in a loop until the third click is made.

In the lower left corner of the display screen 21, a number-of-turns display section 24 is provided. In this example, listening to the reading of the nine example sentences is defined as one lap, the number of the current lap is displayed in text, and when the lap exceeds 99 laps, the lap is returned to the first lap. The display screen 21 further includes a number-of-laps display section 2.
4, a mascot display section 25 is provided, and when this mascot display section 25 is clicked with a mouse, for example, a simple guide relating to screen operation is explained by voice.

Further, on the display screen 21, an operation button display area 26 is provided on the lower side. The operation button display area 26 includes, for example, a “progress button (right arrow)” for proceeding to the next step, a “return button (left arrow)” for returning to the previous step, a “pause button” for interrupting learning, Various operation buttons such as a “help button” for explaining the operation are displayed.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

A CD-ROM in which a program and learning information on a foreign language, for example, English, have been written in advance is stored in a CD-RO.
When mounted on the M device 10, the CD-ROM controller 9
The contents of the CD-ROM are read under the control of, and are installed in the HDD device 12 by the installation program. That is, each data read from the CD-ROM is stored in the program storage unit 12 of the HDD device 12.
a, written in the image / text information storage unit 12b and the audio information storage unit 12c.

The main control section 3 operates according to the program written in the program storage section 12a, reads out the English learning information from the image / text information storage section 12b, and displays it on the display 5b. The main control unit 3
In addition to the display of information as the learning progresses, the audio information is read from the audio information storage unit 12c and output by the audio output device 6 so that the learning is effectively performed.

And in English shower learning,
First, the task to be learned is displayed on the screen. If the task to be learned is, for example, "how to use like, have, etc.", nine example sentences are prepared for each practice A, B, C as shown in FIG.

When a progress button in the operation button display area 26 is clicked on the screen displaying the above-mentioned task (step A1), the main control unit 3 changes the three shower illustration movement patterns prepared in advance as described above. 5 are selected at random (step A2), and illustrations corresponding to, for example, nine example sentences of practice A are sequentially displayed on the shower illustration display section 22 of the display screen 21 as shown in FIG.

Further, the main control section 3 reads out the example sentence narration corresponding to the illustration of the practice A displayed on the shower illustration display section 22 from the voice information storage section 12c and outputs it from the voice output device 6 (step A3). In the narration of this example sentence, the nine example sentences of practice A shown in FIG. 4 are repeatedly reproduced. Then, the shower illustration display section 22 displayed on the screen is moved according to the movement pattern randomly selected in step A2 (step A4).

The main controller 3 determines whether or not the "progress button" has been clicked while the illustration is being displayed (step A5). Shower illustration display section 22
It is determined whether or not has been clicked (step A6).
If the shower illustration display section 22 has not been clicked, the flow returns to step A3 to reproduce the example sentence narration, and then moves the shower illustration in step A4. If no click operation is performed as described above, the reproduction of the narration of nine example sentences and the movement of the shower illustration are repeatedly performed in practice units. At this time, the number-of-turns display section 24 of the display screen 21 displays a text indicating the number of the current reading of the nine example sentences.

The learner wants to listen to the example sentence in a concentrated manner when the illustration for the example sentence is displayed on the screen.
Click the illustration. When the illustration is clicked, the main control unit 3 proceeds from step A6 to step A7 to stop the clicked illustration,
The example sentence narration (one sentence) is reproduced in a loop. Further, the main controller 3 determines whether or not the second click is performed during the loop reproduction (step A).
8) If not clicked, the process returns to step A7.

When it is determined in step A8 that the illustration has been clicked, the example sentence text is displayed in English and Japanese on the serif display section 23 of the display screen 21 while continuing the voice loop as shown in FIG. 6 ( Step A9).
Further, the main control unit 3 determines whether or not the third click has been performed while the example sentence text is being displayed on the serif display unit 23 (step A10), and if not, returns to step A9. Continue displaying the example text. If it is determined in step A10 that the third click has been performed, the process returns to step A3, and the narration reproduction and the shower illustration moving process of the nine example sentences are executed again.

In the same manner, the processing of steps A7 to A10 can be performed on an arbitrary example sentence by a click operation.

When the "return button" in the operation button display area 26 is clicked during the learning, step A
Returning to step 3, learning can be restarted from the beginning. Further, when the "return button" is double-clicked during the learning, the learning initial screen, that is, the initial screen displaying the task to be learned can be returned.

When the user clicks the "help button" in the operation button display area 26 during the learning, a help screen explaining the operation method of the screen is displayed. Further, narration by the mascot displayed on the mascot display section 25 and other information display are performed at any time.

When the "progress button" in the operation button display area 26 is operated on the arbitrary display screen, this button operation is detected in step A5, and the process proceeds to the next learning, for example, one sentence learning (step A11). This one-sentence learning is, for example, a content in which each of the above-described example sentences is selected one by one and the narration speed is changed to learn. When the one sentence learning is completed, the process proceeds to the practice B learning shown in FIG.

The shower learning proceeds as described above. If the user clicks on the "interrupt button" displayed in the operation button display area 26 during the learning, the learning can be interrupted.

As described above, the English voice is loop-reproduced in practice units in accordance with the moving picture displayed on the shower illustration display unit 22, and the English voice is looped in sentence units with respect to the still picture. Since the reproduction is performed, through direct connection between the event represented by the picture and the corresponding image under the English voice image, direct experiential learning can be performed without using characters.

A serif display section 23 is provided together with the shower illustration display section 22.
By clicking, the example sentence text is displayed on the serif display unit 23, so that the English character as a phonetic character can be unconsciously realized by combining the English character and the corresponding English voice.

As a result, the three-dimensional learning of events (pictures), voices, and characters can develop English ability as experience knowledge beyond thinking, and English learning can be performed effectively.

In the above embodiment, the case of learning English has been described. However, the present invention can be practiced in a foreign language other than English in the same manner as in the above embodiment.

In the above embodiment, the CD-RO
Even if the program, image / text information, and the like stored in M are first installed in the HDD device 12, only the necessary information is first installed in the HDD device 12, and then, according to the progress of learning. CD-RO
The stored information of M may be sequentially read out to the HDD device 12 or the internal memory.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the program and the learning information are recorded on the CD-ROM has been described. However, it goes without saying that other storage media such as a DVD may be used.

[0036]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, in a system for learning a foreign language such as English using a personal computer, a foreign language for learning in a practice unit in accordance with a moving picture displayed on a screen. Since the voice of the example sentence of the word is loop-reproduced, and the voice is arbitrarily loop-reproduced for each sentence in a sentence unit with respect to the still picture,
Through the combination of the event represented by the picture and the corresponding image of the foreign language voice under the image, direct experiential learning without the use of characters is possible.

Further, since the example sentence text is displayed on the screen by clicking on the picture displayed on the screen, the combination of the foreign language character and the corresponding voice makes it possible to generate a phonetic character. You can realize foreign languages unconsciously.

As a result, when learning a foreign language such as English, it is possible to provide a foreign language learning system capable of expecting a great learning effect by organically fusing image-speech-character mutually.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a foreign language learning system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary view showing a configuration example of a basic image in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary view showing a sentence example of English learning in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary view showing a screen display example of shower learning in the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an exemplary view showing another screen display example of shower learning in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 input device 2 input interface 3 main control unit 4 arithmetic unit 5 display device 5a display controller 5b display 6 audio output device 6a audio controller 6b speaker 7 printer driver 8 printer 9 CD-ROM controller 10 CD-ROM device 11 HDD controller 12 HDD Apparatus 21 Display screen 22 Shower illustration display section 23 Serif display section 24 Number of laps display section 25 Mascot display section 26 Operation button display area

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A shower illustration display means for sequentially moving and displaying a shower illustration corresponding to each example sentence of a foreign language compiled in practice units according to a movement pattern, and a voice of the example sentence corresponding to the illustration to be moved and displayed in practice units. A first playback unit that repeatedly plays back the illustration, a designation unit that selects and designates an illustration to be moved on the screen, and stops the illustration when the illustration is designated for the first time by the designation unit. Second playback means for loop-playing the voice of the corresponding example sentence; example sentence text display means for displaying an example sentence text corresponding to the illustration on the screen when the illustration is designated for the second time; When specified, the illustration is returned to the moving display state, and the audio of the example sentence is Foreign language learning system characterized by comprising a means for returning to the state to play repeatedly with infantis units.