KR20010080819A - Foreign language learning system between people from distance and its learning method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: The system and method for learning language conversation are provided to conveniently keep and manage many lecturers in various times, to minimize the costs for the lecturer, and to enable a student to take the lecture on a desired time. CONSTITUTION: A student system(100) is composed of a student call(10), student gateway server(20), and main DB server(30). Lecturer systems(200,201) are composed of lecturer calls(70,71), lecturer gateway servers(50,51), and lecturer DB servers(60,61). The student and lecturer calls(10,70,71) means devices like a telephone, videophone, or computer for the communication between the student and the lecturer. The student and lecturer gateway servers(20,50,51) exchange the data each other by using the data transfer technology using the Internet(40). The main DB server(30) includes the information on the available lecturers and offers the information to the student gateway server for the connection with the desired lecturer call. The lecturer DB server(60,61) plays a role of the local DB server, which keeps the personal information of the lecturer.

Description

Foreign language learning system between people from distance and its learning method}

The present invention relates to a remote language conversation learning system and learning method, and more particularly, to provide a database of information on a native instructor located at a remote location, and a time for a student to communicate by connecting a student and a native speaker using the Internet. The present invention relates to a remote language conversational learning system and method for enabling conversation practice with free and diverse instructors.

The general public uses a self-taught or a language school using language tapes to acquire language proficiency in a non-native second language. However, direct contact with native speakers of native languages, rather than self-taught with tapes, can lead to faster and more accurate foreign language skills.

Recently, the operation status of language schools tends to attract a lot of instructors who speak native languages. In general, the main types of services provided by language schools are the way in which students attend the school and listen to the lectures. In addition, some schools offer native instructors and language programs through telephone contact for students who do not have enough time.

However, in the case of a language program using a native instructor and telephone contact, the number of native instructors that can be hired in the institute is limited due to the labor cost of the instructor or other economic problems.

Therefore, in general, the operating system of a language school that provides a language program by using a native instructor and a telephone contact is operated in a manner in which the time for the student to call is pre-designated. Therefore, students are inconvenient to use the program. Native instructors always have to wait in a certain place.

In addition, most of the native instructors employed in the traditional academy are staying in Korea and the number of students is quite limited, so the students are inconvenient to encounter various native instructors. In other words, even if the same English, each country has a different habit of using the language, if a person who has not directly contacted the language of the country directly encounters the English of the country, it is difficult to understand the English used in the country. For example, a student in charge of overseas sales in the Philippines needs to be familiar with Filipino English in order to conduct business with locals in order to achieve the desired purpose when using a traditional institute program for the purpose of learning Filipino English. There is a problem that is very difficult.

An object of the present invention is to provide a remote language conversational learning system and a learning method that are convenient for maintaining and managing a variety of instructors and a plurality of instructors who speak a native language.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a language conversation learning system using the Internet that can be used at the time desired by the learner, rather than minimizing the cost required to maintain various instructors who speak the local language and designated call time. For the purpose.

1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing the entire system of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the relationship between the main DB server 30 and the instructor DB servers 90, 110, and 120. FIG.

Figure 3 is an example of the system construction of the present invention when both the student and the instructor used the telephone as a call device.

4 is a flow diagram illustrating the steps of connecting a student and an instructor using the remote language conversation system of the present invention.

5 is a flow chart showing the steps of another embodiment of connecting a student and an instructor using the remote language conversation system of the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ***

10: student call device 20: student gateway server

30: main DB server 40: the Internet

50, 51: instructor gateway server 60, 61: instructor DB server

70, 71: lecturer call device 90, 110, 120: lecturer DB server

130: binary packet converter 140: binary packet inverse converter

100: student system 200, 201: lecturer system

The above object of the present invention is a main DB server having a local DB server having a local instructor DB and a local instructor DB using a local instructor DB using an Internet communication using a student gateway server and an instructor gateway server. A remote language conversation learning method comprising: a learner's gateway server access step where the learner accesses the learner's gateway server using a communication device, and the learner enters a learner's identification code into the learner's gateway server and selects desired instructor information. Instructor information input step to confirm and the identification code verification step to check the student identification code entered by the learner, the instructor selection step of selecting the instructor suitable for the instructor information in the main DB and the gateway server and the instructor for the learner and the selected instructor Through the gateway server Connected to may include a connection step between the gateway server to enable a communication, and achieved by a change in the local DB instructor Remote language conversation learning method characterized in that the reflection on the main DB.

The object of the present invention is to provide a remote language conversation learning system that enables a remote English conversation with a student system and an instructor system for connecting a student who is located in a remote location and a native language instructor via the Internet, the student having a student identification number and A lecturer call device for communicating with the lecturer and communicating with the lecturer, a lecturer information DB for using a native language, and an identification number DB for checking the identification number, and instructor information input from the learner call device. The system can be informed of the status of the instructor and the learner system having a main DB server for selecting the appropriate instructor desired by the learner, the caller of the learner, and a gateway server for the learner connected to the main DB server, and for communicating with the learner. Lecturer means of communication and holds instructor And a lecturer system including a local DB server, a lecturer calling device, and an instructor gateway server connected to the local DB server to store data about the instructor and the instructor status transmitted from the instructor communication means. It can also be achieved by the language conversation learning system, characterized in that the instructor server is connected to the Internet.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing the entire system of the present invention. Although FIG. 1 illustrates a remote conversation system composed of one student system 100 and two instructor systems 200 and 201, it is generally composed of a system consisting of a plurality of student systems and a larger number of instructor systems. can do.

The student system 100 is composed of a student call device 10, a student gateway server 20, and a main database (hereinafter referred to as DB) server 30, and the instructor system 200, 201 is a lecturer. The call device 70, 71, the instructor gateway server 50, 51, and the instructor DB server 60, 61 are used. In the above configuration, the learner system 100 is illustrated as if the learner call device 10 is provided separately, but the call device 10 in the learner system 100 referred to in the present invention is for home or public use. It is used as a term that includes the general calling device used. The instructor call devices 70 and 71 in the instructor system 200 can also be interpreted in the same manner.

The call device 10, 70, 71 may include all the call devices suitable for the participant and the instructor to talk, such as a telephone, a video telephone, or a computer, and allow the learner and the instructor to directly communicate for language conversation. to be. The gateway servers 20, 50, and 51 are equipments for connecting networks having different structures. In the city of FIG. 1, the gateway server 20 and the instructor calling devices 70 and 71 are connected to the student calling device 10. ) Is configured as an instructor gateway server (50, 51). The student gateway server 20 and the instructor gateway servers 50 and 51 exchange data with each other using a data transmission technique using the Internet 40.

The main DB server 30 is a DB server including information on available instructors. After receiving the instructor information that the learner wants to call, the instructor selects a suitable instructor and connects to the access number of the corresponding instructor's calling device. Provides information to In contrast, the instructor DB server 60, 61 is installed in some areas, and the local DB server that receives and maintains the instructor status such as the contact number (caller's access number) and contact availability of the instructor who can be contacted in the area It is in charge of the function as.

In FIG. 1, the gateway server 20 and the main DB server 30 or the instructor gateway server 50 and 51 and the instructor DB server 60 and 61 are configured as separate systems, but are integrated into one system. It can also be used.

2 is a block diagram showing the relationship between the main DB server 30 and the instructor DB servers 90, 110, and 120. As shown in FIG. 2 is a representative example for explaining the main DB server 30 of the present invention, the instructor DB 90 is stored and maintained information about the instructor accessible from Los Angeles, the instructor DB 110 in Washington D.C. Information about instructors accessible at is stored and maintained, and instructor DB 120 stores and maintains information on instructors accessible from Australia. Although the main DB server 30 includes all the instructor information on the instructor DBs 90, 110, and 120, the main DB server may include only the instructor DB in the required region.

The main DB server 30 and the instructor DB server 90, 110, 120 can match data with each other using internet data transmission technology. In this case, the main DB server 30 and the instructor DB server 90, 110, and 120 are connected to each other via the Internet via the path of the student gateway server 20 and the instructor gateway server 50, 51 shown in FIG. In some cases, the main DB server 30 and the instructor DB server 90, 110, and 120 may be interconnected through separate Internet paths.

In the main DB, it is preferable to include the field information for each instructor's residence area, the available time zone, and the current call availability field. The instructor DB includes the instructor's available time zone and current call availability. It is desirable to include fields that can be.

If the contents of the instructor DB are changed, the contents of the instructor DB can be changed immediately or at regular intervals, and the main DB server is notified of the changes. At this time, the main DB may send a message to the instructor DB that the modification is reflected. As described above, there are various ways to match the contents of the main DB and the contents of the instructor DB, and there is no difficulty in implementing the current technology. One such solution is the relational implementation of the main and instructor databases. If you build a relational DB, you can easily achieve the desired purpose by using the data consistency provided by the DB itself.

3 shows an example of the system construction of the present invention when both the student and the instructor use the telephone as the call device. As described above, the student gateway server 20 and the instructor gateway servers 50 and 51 of the present invention communicate using the Internet data transmission technology. Therefore, a binary packet conversion apparatus 130 for converting the voice signal transmitted from the student's telephone into binary packet data suitable for Internet transmission should be provided. In the case of the instructor system, a binary packet inverse transform apparatus 140 for inversely converting the binary packet data transmitted from the student system into a voice signal should be further provided. The binary packet converter 130 and the binary packet inverse converter 140 are now widely commercialized as a technology called Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Similar to the example shown in FIG. 3, even when the user or the instructor uses the video phone, the binary packet converter 130 for converting the data of the video phone into binary packet data and the binary packet inverse converter 140 in charge of inverse conversion Will be needed.

4 is a flowchart illustrating the steps of connecting a student and an instructor using the remote language conversation system of the present invention. Using the Internet protocol using the student gateway server and the instructor gateway server, and building a main DB server system having a local DB server having a local instructor DB located at a remote site and an entire instructor DB including the local instructor DB. The learner connects to the learner gateway server using a call device. Since the access communication is made in the local area, when using the phone as a student call device, the corresponding call fee is added to the local call fee, thereby enabling language conversation learning at a low cost.

The learner enters the student identification code and the desired teacher selection information in the gateway server. The gateway server is equipped with an ARS system so that this information can be easily input.

The gateway server may check the learner identification code by itself or transmit the learner identification code to the main DB server so that the main DB server checks the learner identification code.

In addition, the gateway server transmits the input information of the instructor selection information received to the main DB server, and the main DB server checks the contents of the main DB and selects an appropriate instructor. By reading the access number of the selected instructor from the main DB and transmitting it to the gateway server, the gateway server connects the learner and the instructor so that communication steps can be performed.

In the case of carrying out the present invention by issuing a prepaid card, the learner may further include a step of purchasing a prepaid card with a unique number for each card before the gateway server connection step for the learner, The purpose of the present invention can also be achieved by entering a unique number for each card assigned to a prepaid card.

5 is a flow chart showing the steps of another embodiment of connecting a student and an instructor using the remote language conversation system of the present invention. The differences from the flowcharts shown in FIG. 4 will now be described.

In the scheme shown in FIG. 5, when a suitable instructor is selected as a result of searching the main DB, the main DB server executes a call request step for requesting a request for whether the call is possible. In response to the request of the main DB server, the instructor may respond to the main DB server in a call answering step to signal whether current language conversation learning is possible or not.

After analyzing the results of the call answering step, the main DB server proceeds to the communication step of directly connecting the student and the instructor when language conversation learning is possible. The process of selecting an instructor will be repeated.

The language conversation learning system and learning method presented in the present invention enable the securing and maintaining of various local instructors who speak the native language, thereby increasing the choice of instructors to learners of the language. Calls can be made at any time, and the instructor is no longer inconvenient to wait for the call from the students at a certain place at a given time.

In addition, according to the present invention, it becomes possible to provide a variety of convenience to the students by being able to maintain the system at a lower cost than the existing system by enabling the language conversation service through the Internet.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary and should be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible. . Therefore, the true scope of protection of the present invention should be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

Claims (7)

Remote language conversation using a local DB server with a local instructor DB located on a remote site using the Internet communication using the student gateway server and the instructor gateway server, and a main DB server having the entire instructor DB including the local instructor DB. As a learning method, A student gateway server access step of the student accessing the student gateway server using communication equipment; An instructor information input step in which the student inputs a student identification code to the student gateway server and selects desired instructor information; An identification code confirming step of confirming a learner identification code inputted by the learner; An instructor selecting step of selecting an instructor suitable for the instructor information in the main DB; Wow A connection between the learner and the selected instructor through the gateway server for the learner and the instructor gateway server to enable communication, and the change of the local instructor DB is reflected in the main DB. Remote language conversation learning method, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of obtaining a prepaid card with a unique number for each card before the gateway server connection step of the learner, wherein the learner identification code input in the identification code checking step is assigned to the prepaid card. Remote language conversation learning method, characterized in that the unique number for each card. The method of claim 1, further comprising: a call requesting step of requesting a call to the selected instructor between the instructor selecting step and the connection between the gateway server; A call answering step, wherein the selected instructor responds to the call requesting step; And further comprising a call availability analysis step of analyzing, by the student gateway server, whether or not the call answer is possible, and if the call connection is not possible as a result of the call availability analysis step, selecting the instructor through the call. Remote language conversation learning method, characterized in that the step of repeating whether or not. The remote language conversational learning according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the learner gateway server and the main DB server or the instructor gateway server and the local DB server each comprise one server. Way. It is a remote language conversation learning system that enables remote English conversation by providing a student system and an instructor system that connect students who are located in remote locations and speakers who speak a native language through the Internet. The student system A learner call device for delivering the instructor information that the learner desires to call with the learner identification number and communicating with the instructor; A main DB server having an instructor information DB that speaks a native language and an identification number DB for confirming the identification number, and selecting an appropriate instructor desired by the learner using the instructor information input from the student call device; And And a student gateway server connected to the student's call device and the main DB server. The instructor system Instructor communication means for notifying status of the instructor and for communicating with the learner; A local DB server that stores data on the instructor and the instructor state transmitted from the instructor communication means; And And a lecturer gateway server connected to the instructor call device and the local DB server, wherein the student gateway server and the lecturer server are connected to the Internet. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the student call device and the instructor call device are one of a telephone, a video telephone, or a computer, and when the telephone call or a video telephone is used, the voice converter or the video and audio is converted into binary data. And a video / audio conversion device for converting each other. 7. The remote language conversation learning system according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the student gateway server and the main DB server or the instructor gateway server and the local DB server each comprise one server.