JP6823678B2 - Language learning materials - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to language learning teaching materials for the purpose of learning a language other than the mother tongue.

Learning materials using audio teaching materials include saving conversation content as audio data on a CD, digital audio player, etc., listening to the reproduced audio, and reciting the heard audio to learn the language. is there.

In Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2016-206591 (hereinafter referred to as a conventional example), as a method of creating learning content for learners who have difficulty listening to long sentences, a listening voice divided into a plurality of parts according to a volume level from the original voice is provided. A method of playback using a dedicated playback device has been proposed.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2016-206591

However, in the conventional example, assuming that the voice is divided for each speaker, a method of setting a boundary for dividing the voice according to the volume and dividing a long sentence is adopted, and one person talks. There is a problem that it is difficult to divide a long sentence when a person reads a very long sentence, and it is difficult to divide the long sentence unless each speaker has a premise to read a very short sentence.

Further, in the conventional example, there is also a problem that a dedicated playback device must be prepared in order to reproduce the divided audio.

The present invention provides a language learning teaching material that enables good language learning as a result of various trials.

The gist of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

It is a teaching material for language learning for learning a language, and has linguistic voice data in which linguistic voice is reproducibly configured, and this linguistic voice data is divided into chunks, and each of the divided chunks. language audio data, the pitch for each chunk, different size or sound color of the sound, relate to materials for language learning, which is a data to be reproduced so as to be distinguishable for each chunk is there.

In addition, it is a teaching material for language learning for learning a language, and has linguistic voice data in which linguistic voice is reproducibly configured, and this linguistic voice data is divided for each chunk, and this divided chunk The language audio data for each chunk relates to a teaching material for language learning, which is characterized in that a different sound is reproduced for each chunk at the beginning of each chunk.

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it is a language learning teaching material that enables language learning to be performed very efficiently.

It is explanatory drawing of an Example . It is explanatory drawing of the configuration example .

An embodiment of the present invention that is considered to be suitable will be briefly described by showing the operation of the present invention based on the drawings.

Since the linguistic speech data consisting of multiple sentences is divided into chunks so that the learner can easily hear it, it is reproduced with a smaller number of components than one sentence is divided by words, and one sentence is memorized. It will be easier to do. In this regard, previous studies have suggested that memory and recall can be effectively performed by dividing words into chunks and learning, rather than dividing them into words (Reference: CHEN, CHEN, Zhijian; COWAN, Nelson. Chunk limits and length limits in immediate recall: a reconciliation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005, 31.6: 1235.).

Further, since the divided chunks are reproduced so that the pitch of each chunk is different, for example, the word order can be learned together with the chunks. The word order in English is strict, and changing the word order greatly changes the meaning of the sentence. Therefore, in order to learn an English sentence with an accurate meaning, it is necessary to learn the word order together with the words. In the present invention, for example, by reproducing the chunks so that the pitch is different, it is possible to learn by associating the word order of a foreign language different from Japanese with the words, and learning the sentence while grasping the meaning of the sentence. (Reference: Hideki Sato, et al. Learning English with an awareness of the difference between Japanese and English-focusing on word order and time system-. Journal of Nagano University, 2015, 37.2: 1-12.).

Furthermore, if you assemble the acquired chunks according to the word order, you can learn not only listening but also speaking.

<Example>
It will be described with reference to the drawings about the specific embodiments of the present invention. An example is a teaching material for learning English.
Chunks are one of the concepts of words used in learning English, and have the characteristic of "word units" that have grammatical functions, and the same "memory" as chunks in the fields of cognitive science and psychology. A unit of words that has the characteristic of "unit".

Briefly, chunks are two to seven words of clichés (phrases), short sentences used by native speakers in everyday English conversation (references: SAATY, Thomas L .; OZDEMIR, Mujgan S). . Why the magic number seven plusor minus two. Mathematical and computer modeling, 2003, 38.3-4: 233-244.).

For example, the following is an example of chunks.
want to ~ (want to)
(Be) going to ~ (I'm going to)

In this embodiment, focusing on the feature of "a unit of words having a grammatical function", a "phrase" that expresses one part of speech with two or more words, and a sentence component with a subject and a finite verb are provided. The beginning of each of the two types of "sections" is defined as the chunk division point, and the divided word block is defined as the chunk.

First, the original text shown in FIG. 1 is divided into chunks by the division process at the beginning of a phrase / clause, and the voice is divided so as to correspond to the divided chunks. Hereinafter, the voice divided in this way is referred to as "chunk voice" ("language voice data" in the claims).

Furthermore, in order to add word order information to the divided chunk voices, changes according to the word order are added to the chunk voices. For example, the pitch, loudness, or timbre of each chunk is different, and some changes are made between the chunks before and after.

Other methods of changing the chunk voice according to the word order include, for example, configuring the chunk voice to play the voice of a person whose voice quality is clearly different depending on the age, and male adult, female adult, and male. The playback order may be similar to that of children and women. The processed sound is reproduced from an appropriate audio medium according to the learning method. The voice data saved in the audio player or the like may be played back while referring to the text on the paper medium in which the original text is described, or a learning application having the text data and the voice data may be created. ..

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, a voice different from the chunk voice is inserted at the beginning of the divided voice.

Here, one piano sound is inserted at the beginning of the chunk voice, and as the word order becomes the latter half, the word order is expressed by sequentially lowering the sound to change the voice chunk.

Changes in voice chunks are reset on a sentence-by-sentence basis. Taking FIG. 1 as an example, if the next sentence follows the fourth chunk separated by a comma, the piano sound that has been low will be replaced by the first sound at the beginning of the next sentence. Return to height. By adding changes to chunks according to the word order for each sentence, it is possible to express sentence breaks.

It is said that the word order of English is more likely to be fixed than in other languages, and since it is easy to correspond between the word order and the basic sentence pattern, the addition of word order information can play an auxiliary role in capturing the sentence pattern. You can expect it.

This example also chunk audio from being configured to play a general purpose audio player, a very utility value high.

< Configuration example >
A configuration example will be described with reference to the drawings.

Adding position information of the sound into chunks sound using the spatial audio technology.

Here, the spatial acoustic technology refers to a technology for adding information on the position of a sound source to sound. This is a technology that changes the volume and frequency of the sound presented to the left and right ears and adds information on the distance and angle of the sound source, assuming stereo playback by an output device such as earphones.

In a method of expressing the word order of chunk speech using spatial acoustic technology, the position where the chunk speech is presented is changed according to the word order. The word order can be expressed by designating the position of the sound source for each chunk voice and letting the learner hear the chunk voice in the clockwise order.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the case of the chunk voice divided into four, the arrangement is made at the sound source position as shown in FIG. Considering that the sound source is placed on the circumference on the horizontal plane centered on the learner's head, the intersection of the circle on the horizontal plane and the front of the learner is 0 degrees, and the interval is 30 degrees from 45 degrees in front of the left to 45 degrees in front of the right. The sound sources are arranged at four locations, and the chunk sounds are subjected to spatial acoustic processing one by one from the beginning of the sentence to the end of the sentence in the order of clockwise from 45 degrees in front of the left.

Claims (2)

It is a teaching material for language learning for learning a language, and has linguistic voice data in which linguistic voice is reproducibly configured, and this linguistic voice data is divided into chunks, and each of the divided chunks. language audio data, the pitch for each chunk, different size or sound color of the sound, materials for language learning, which is a data to be reproduced so as to be distinguishable for each chunk. It is a teaching material for language learning for learning a language, and has linguistic voice data in which linguistic voice is reproducibly configured, and this linguistic voice data is divided into chunks, and each of the divided chunks. Language audio data is a teaching material for language learning, characterized in that different sounds are reproduced for each chunk at the beginning of each chunk.