KR20090054951A - Method for studying word and word studying apparatus thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A word studying method and a word studying device applying the same are provided to maximize the memorization of the word by using a visual method and an audible method. An input unit(110) includes a power on/off button, an input button, and an instruction execution button. A display(120) is comprised of a display device like a liquid crystal device. A speaker(130) outputs a voice signal according to the control of a controller(150). A database(140) is constructed to various language dictionaries according to the target language of a user. The database includes a pronunciation storage including a real pronunciation and an intonation representing a word and an image. The controller controls the whole operation of the studying device according to a word studying program.

Description

Word learning method and word learning apparatus using the same {METHOD FOR STUDYING WORD AND WORD STUDYING APPARATUS THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a word learning method and a word learning apparatus using the same, and more particularly, to repeatedly memorize words in a language to be learned effectively and to memorize words visually and audibly. By increasing the memorization ability, it relates to a word learning method that allows children to learn English easily and fun, and a word learning apparatus using the same.

With English as the world's common language, English education is now essential. In the global era, the actual standard language of cyberspace is written in English, and a large amount of information is also stored in English. English education is more urgent.

Due to the necessity of English, English education is an essential course in most countries, and various learning methods are introduced. As a result, these various learning methods suggest ways to express one's opinion in English.

This will improve the naturalness of the expression of expression through understanding the culture of the English speaking domain and repetitive learning of the phrases they use. To do this, memorizing words and phrases that make up English is an essential requirement. Sometimes the method of learning English is geared towards simple knowledge-based entrance exams, but this also requires memorization. As such, various methods have been sought to improve the efficiency of memorization in learning English, and many methods have been proposed.

However, in the past, in the memorization of English words or sentences, a method by simply repetitive handwriting or vocalization has been used, and thus the memorization efficiency has not been maximized.

Electronic dictionaries have become a convenient and popular tool for learning English, and several English learning systems have been developed as portable electronic English learning devices or Internet English learning devices.

However, such an English learning device has a problem in that it does not show effective learning efficiency by providing only some simple functions such as simple "Vocabulary browsing" and "word checking".

In addition, while English learning for children has recently been emphasized, there has been a problem that the conventional English learning apparatus is manufactured mainly for adults.

The present invention is to solve and complement the problems caused by the conventional word learning method and the word learning apparatus using the same as described above,

Disclosure of Invention An object of the present invention is to provide a word learning method and a word learning apparatus using the same, which can be memorized effectively by repeatedly learning a word of a language to be learned.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a word learning method and a word learning apparatus using the same, which can increase the memorization ability by allowing a user to memorize words visually and aurally.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a word learning method and a word learning apparatus using the same, which enable children to easily and funly learn English.

According to the present invention for achieving the above object, a word learning method comprising: a display step of displaying a word provided from a database and an image corresponding to the meaning of the word on a display window; And a partial display step of displaying one or two or more phonemes of the phoneme constituting a word after the user's progress request or a predetermined time and some images of the images are displayed on the display window; It provides a word learning method comprising a.

Following the partial display step, a redisplay step of displaying a word and an image on a display window after a user's progress request or a predetermined time; It may be configured to include.

Following the partial display step, a learning check step of displaying a plurality of words or images which have been partially displayed on the display window, or a mixture of words and images; It may be configured to include.

A re-displaying step, a learning check step of displaying a plurality of words or images which have undergone the re-displaying step or a mixture of words and images; It may be configured to include.

In the learning check step, when the user requests the display of the word or image displayed on the display window, the word corresponding to the meaning of the image or image corresponding to the meaning of the word may be displayed.

Meanwhile, according to the present invention, there is provided a word learning method, comprising: a display step of displaying a word provided from a database and an image corresponding to a meaning on the word in a display window; And a learning check step of displaying a plurality of words or images through the display step on the display window, or a mixture of the words and the images. It provides a word learning method comprising a.

In the learning check step, when the user requests the display of the word or image displayed on the display window, the word corresponding to the meaning of the image or image corresponding to the meaning of the word may be displayed.

The database stores a pronunciation indicating a word pronunciation or an image, and when a word or image is displayed on a display window, a pronunciation indicating a word pronunciation or an image is output.

The database may store a pronunciation indicating a pronunciation of a word or an image and include a quick listening step of modifying and outputting a speed of the pronunciation stored in the database after the display step.

A search requesting step of requesting a user to search for a word or an image before the displaying step; And a word detection step of searching for a word or an image in a database and detecting a word corresponding to the meaning of the image or the image corresponding to the word; It may be configured to include.

On the other hand, according to the present invention provides a word learning apparatus applying the above-described word learning method.

According to the word learning method and the word learning apparatus using the same according to the present invention, it is effective to memorize effectively by repeatedly learning a word of a language to be learned.

In addition, the present invention has the effect of allowing the user to memorize words visually and audibly to increase the memorization power.

In addition, the present invention has the effect of allowing children to learn English easily and fun.

Although the word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention can be used for language learning in various countries of the world, it will be described here by taking an example of learning an English word and an image corresponding to the meaning of the corresponding English word. In addition, "phoneme" used in the present invention refers to a letter or a combination of characters as a minimum distinct unit indicating a phoneme (a minimum unit in phonology, which can no longer be divided small) in a language system of a language. Refers to.

The word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may be separately manufactured to be used by the user while easily operating, and may be separately manufactured, or anytime, anywhere, and a wired / wireless terminal (personal mobile communication such as a wired telephone or a mobile phone or a PDA). Terminals) or personal computers.

Hereinafter, with reference to the drawings will be described in detail. However, these drawings are for illustrative purposes only and the present invention is not limited thereto. The word learning apparatus used below means a word learning apparatus to which the word learning method according to the present invention is applied.

1 is a structural diagram of a word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a word learning apparatus 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an input unit 110, a display window 120, a speaker 130, a database 140, and a controller 150. do.

The input unit 110 may include a power on / off button, an input button for inputting an image corresponding to an English word or a meaning of the English word, for example, a scanned and filed image, and a command learning button. It consists of a number of buttons formed on the front or side of the (100).

The display window 120 may be configured as a display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) or the like commonly used, and may be used as an English word to a user of the word learning device 100 under the control of the controller 150 described below. And various information according to the use of the word learning apparatus 100 such as an image, a current state, and a program progress. The display window 120 may be configured as a touch screen so that a user may use the word learning apparatus 100 more conveniently.

Like the display window 120, the speaker 130 outputs a voice signal under the control of the controller 150. The voice signal refers to a variety of information according to the use of the word learning device 100, such as pronunciation of an English word, pronunciation referring to an image, a current state of the word learning device 100, or a progress of a program. In this case, the speaker 130 may not be mounted in the word learning apparatus 100 according to the manufacturing cost of the word learning apparatus 100.

The database 140 may be constructed of various language dictionaries according to the language that the user wants to learn, and in one embodiment of the present invention, since the word to be learned is English, the corresponding word dictionary (English dictionary, 142) and An image 144 corresponding to the meaning of a word is constructed in a database (image storage unit 144). In addition, the database 140 includes a pronunciation storage unit 146 storing actual pronunciations and intonations referring to English words and images, and the control unit 150 when the speaker 130 is mounted in the word learning apparatus 100. By outputting the pronunciation of the word through the speaker 130 under the control of the can increase the learning effect and can be built a variety of databases required for learning according to the setting.

The controller 150 controls the whole word learning apparatus 100 according to the word learning program so as to smoothly provide the word learning method according to an embodiment of the present invention. In particular, the language input by the user through the input unit 110, verifies whether the input word is spelled correctly through the corresponding language dictionary database, the display window 120, the speaker 130, or the display window 120 Through both the and the speaker 130, the user can visually and audibly control to see and hear the image and pronunciation representing the meaning of the word.

The word learning apparatus 100 may be configured such that users are connected to the network 200 to receive data of a word or image, that is, an English word and an image corresponding to the meaning of the corresponding English word, in the database 140. If you want to learn a different language can download the data for other languages such as Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc. instead of English can be configured to enable learning of the language. In this case, the network 200 uses a wired or wireless Internet network, an intranet, a telephone network, a satellite communication network, or a combination of two or more of these, or a similar network.

In addition, the word learning apparatus 100 includes various components for providing a word learning method, for example, a connection device, a database, a module, etc. for connecting the word learning apparatus 100 to the network 200. In order to help the understanding of the present invention, the description of general components already known and used in addition to the main components constituting the present invention will be omitted.

Hereinafter, the word learning method and the word learning apparatus using the same according to the present invention according to the configuration will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a word learning sequence using a word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, when power is applied to the word learning apparatus 100, a specific English word and an image corresponding to the meaning of the specific English word are provided from the database 140 to be displayed on the display window (S10, display step). This allows the user to understand and memorize the meaning of words.

Here, before the display step S10, the user may request a search for an English word or an image (search request step). When a search is requested as described above, the controller 150 searches for the word or image in the word dictionary 142 or the image storage unit 144 of the database 140, detects the word or image, and displays the detected word in the display window 120. By displaying, the display step S10 can be started. In this case, the word or image detected by the user requesting a search may be configured to be separately stored in a database.

As such, a specific word or image provided from the database 140 may be randomly extracted from the database and searched for a word or image that is preset or according to a user's setting, for example, a similar word or a user having similar meaning. Words, images, etc. that have been tried may also be provided.

And, if there is a user's progress request (S20), one or two or more of the phonemes constituting the English word displayed on the display window 120, and some images of the entire image representing the meaning of the English word (S30, partial display step). At this time, depending on the setting may be configured to display both the English word and the image on the display window 120 after the user does not require a certain time.

Next, when there is a user's progress request (S40), the controller 150 according to the setting, the number of English words that passed through the partial display step (S30) is a certain number or more, for example, 10 or 20, or 30 or more If it is less than a certain number to determine the recognition (S50) and the display word (S10) and the English word different from the displayed word in the display step (S10), to display the image corresponding to the meaning of the other English words on the display window (S10) Some display step (S30) is to go through. Here, the English word and the image displayed in the display step (S10) is displayed on the display window 120 before grasping the number of words that have undergone the partial display step (S30) at the time of the progress request (S40) following the partial display step (S30). It can also be configured to determine the number of words or images that have undergone the re-displaying step by configuring the time.

If the number of English words that have passed through the partial display step (S30) is a certain number or more, for example, 10 or more, the plurality of English words memorized so far, that is, 10 English words are displayed on the display window (S60). In this case, all ten English words may be configured to be displayed on the display window, or may be configured to be sequentially displayed. In addition, the image may be configured to display an image other than the English word or the English word and the image are mixed according to the setting.

Here, when there are English words that are not memorized among the English words displayed on the display window 120, the corresponding English words are input through the input unit 110, or when the display window 120 is formed as a touch screen, the display is displayed on the display 120. In order to press the position of the corresponding English word, one or more of the English words displayed on the display window 120 may be requested (S70). If display is required, the corresponding English word and the image corresponding thereto are displayed (S75).

After the first learning check for checking the user's word memorization status by displaying the plurality of English words on the display window 120 as described above, the second learning check is performed by displaying a plurality of images corresponding thereto (S80). do. Herein, when the user requests the display of any one or two or more of the images displayed on the display window 120 (S90), the English word for the corresponding image is displayed (S95).

In addition, when the English words and images are displayed on the display window 120 through the respective steps, the user may help the user to learn by configuring the English words and their pronunciations to be output or not according to the setting. have.

In each step, a specific English word and an image having a corresponding meaning are displayed at the same time. However, if a user's request is required, one of the English words or an image having a corresponding meaning may not be displayed. Can be. For example, when the display window 120 is formed as a touch screen, by pressing a position where an image corresponding to a specific English word is displayed on the display window 120, the image of the position is not displayed. It may be configured to be displayed.

3 to 5 are state diagrams showing a word learning state using the word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, as shown in (a) of FIG. 3, power is supplied to the word learning apparatus 100 so that the word "apple" from the database 140 and the "apple" image corresponding to the image corresponding to "apple" are displayed on the display window. Is displayed (display step). At this time, the pronunciation of "apple" may be output.

And when a user's request or after a certain period of time, as shown in Fig. 3 (b) "a" and "l" of the phoneme constituting the "apple" is displayed, and some images of the "apple" image is displayed (some Display step).

Next, as shown in (c) of FIG. 3, the "apple" and the entire "apple" image are displayed after a user's request or after a predetermined time (redisplay step). At this time, the pronunciation of "apple" may be output according to the setting, and the pronunciation speed of "apple" may be output at a double speed, for example, by changing the pronunciation speed of "apple" after some display or redisplaying steps. (Fast listening stage).

When the set number of words is 10, it is determined whether or not the "apple" displayed in the redisplaying step is the 10th word, and when the word is not the 10th word, other words, that is, "cap" as shown in FIG. Corresponding "hat" images are displayed. At this time, the pronunciation of "cap" may be output while the "cap" and "hat" images are displayed.

Then, after a user's request or after a certain time, some of the phoneme of "cap" and a part of the "hat" image are displayed as shown in (b) of FIG. 4, and as shown in FIG. The "cap" and "hat" images are redisplayed and may be output by modifying the pronunciation speed for "cap" according to the setting (quick listening step).

Subsequently, when the "cap" and "hat" images are not the tenth word, another word, "tree" and an image corresponding to "tree" and a "tree" image are displayed as shown in FIG. 5 (a). Subsequently, as shown in FIGS. 5B and 5C, a partial display step and a re-display step are performed, and a portion in which the pronunciation is output is as described above.

In this case, displaying a part of the phonemes of a specific word in the partial display step may be configured to be displayed in various ways as shown in FIGS. 3B, 4B, and 5B.

6 and 7 are state diagrams illustrating checking a word learning state using a word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, referring to FIG. 6 (a), the number of English words (“apple”, “cap”, “tree” ...) that have undergone the re-display step as shown in FIGS. For example, if 10 are filled, 10 English words are displayed on the display window (learning check step).

Accordingly, the user checks the memorized words while viewing each displayed word, and if there is a word that is not remembered, the user requests the display of any one or more of the English words displayed on the display window 120, for example. For example, when the English word "cap" displayed on the display window 120 is pressed, "cap" displayed at the pressed position is converted into a "hat" image having a corresponding meaning and displayed.

And, after the learning check for English words, that is, the first learning check as shown in Figure 6, the words displayed in Figure 6 (a) as shown in Figure 7 (a) is displayed as an image to check the word memorization state, In other words, the secondary learning check is started.

That is, as shown in (b) of FIG. 6, when an user presses a location of a word that is not remembered, for example, an “apple” image, “apple” indicating an “apple” image is displayed.

Here, the English words are displayed in the first learning check step, and the image is displayed in the second learning check step. However, the images are displayed in the first and the English words are displayed in the second. Alternatively, in the second learning check step, the English word and the image may be mixed and displayed. In addition, according to the setting after the first or second learning check step can be configured to modify the pronunciation speed for the learned words to output (fast listening step).

8 is a state diagram illustrating a state in which a word learned quickly using a word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is quickly heard.

3 to 7 described above, the quick listening step is applied and used after completion of each step constituting an embodiment of the present invention. In the drawing shown in FIG. 8, the quick listening step is performed after all steps are completed. It shows the state.

That is, according to the configuration of the embodiment, the learning is completed in the partial display step, the learning is finished in the re-display step, or the learning is completed in the learning check step, regardless of whether the completion of the learning step is completed on all the learned words By modifying the pronunciation speed for the output is to be pronounced quickly at various speeds, such as 1.5 times or 2 times. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8, all the words learned and the images corresponding to the meanings of the words are outputted, and the learning is performed. In addition, the pronunciation may be output in the order of the words learned according to the setting, or may be output in a scrambled manner. In addition, this method may be applied and used in the learning check step of displaying a plurality of words.

Meanwhile, the word learning apparatus 100 may use a word learning method as shown in FIGS. 2 to 8, but may use a slightly different word learning method.

That is, when power is applied to the word learning apparatus 100, a specific English word and an image corresponding to the meaning of the specific English word are displayed on the display window (S10). At this time, unlike the above-described FIGS. 3 to 5, only a specific English word is displayed on the display window 120, and as the user's progress request or a predetermined time passes, an image having a meaning corresponding to the specific English word instead of the specific English word is displayed. What is displayed may be repeated. For example, after the "apple" is displayed, the "apple" image is displayed "apple" disappears, "cap" is displayed may be configured such that the "apple" image disappears.

In addition, after only a specific English word is displayed, the specific English word and an image corresponding to the meaning may be displayed together after a user's progress request or a predetermined time. In other words, after the "apple" is displayed, the "apple" and the "apple" image is displayed together, and the "cap" after the "cap" and the "hat" image may be configured to be displayed.

After the display step, if the number of words that have passed through the display step is more than a predetermined number, for example, 10 or more, 10 words that the user has memorized so far are displayed on the display window 120. In this case, when the user requests the display of any one or two or more of the words displayed on the display window 120, it is preferable that an image having a meaning corresponding to the word is displayed (S95).

Here too, when the English words and images are displayed on the display window 120 through the respective steps, the pronunciations referring to the pronunciation and the images of each English word may be output according to the setting, and the speed of the pronunciation may be modified and output (fast Listening step) can help the user learning.

As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof.

Therefore, the exemplary embodiments described above are to be understood as illustrative and not restrictive in all respects, and the scope of the present invention is indicated by the following claims rather than the detailed description, and the meaning and scope of the claims and All changes or modifications derived from the equivalent concept should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.

1 is a structural diagram of a word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a word learning sequence using a word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 to 5 are state diagrams showing a word learning state using the word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 and 7 are state diagrams illustrating checking a word learning state using a word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a state diagram illustrating a state in which a word learned quickly using a word learning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is quickly heard.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

100: word learning device 110: input unit

120: display window 130: speaker

140: Database 142: Word Dictionary

144: image storage unit 146: pronunciation storage unit

150: control unit 200: network

Claims (16)

In the word learning method, A display step of displaying a word provided from a database and an image corresponding to the meaning of the word on a display window; And A partial display step of displaying one or two or more phonemes of the phoneme constituting the word and a partial image of the image on the display window after a user's progress request or a predetermined time; Word learning method comprising a. The method of claim 1, After the partial display step, Redisplaying the word and the image on the display window after a user's progress request or a predetermined time; Word learning method comprising a. The method of claim 1, After the partial display step, A learning check step of displaying a plurality of words or images that have undergone the partial display step on the display window, or a mixture of the words and the images; Word learning method comprising a. The method of claim 2, After the redisplay step, A learning check step of displaying a plurality of words or images which have undergone the re-displaying step on the display window or a mixture of the words and the images; Word learning method comprising a. The method of claim 3, wherein In the learning check step, And when the user requests the display of the word or the image displayed on the display window, an image corresponding to the meaning of the word or the word corresponding to the meaning of the image is displayed. The method of claim 4, wherein In the learning check step, And when the user requests the display of the word or the image displayed on the display window, an image corresponding to the meaning of the word or the word corresponding to the meaning of the image is displayed. In the word learning method, A display step of displaying a word provided from a database and an image corresponding to a meaning in the word on a display window; And A learning check step of displaying a plurality of words or images through the display step on the display window, or a mixture of the words and the images; Word learning method comprising a. The method of claim 7, wherein In the learning check step, And when the user requests the display of the word or the image displayed on the display window, an image corresponding to the meaning of the word or the word corresponding to the meaning of the image is displayed. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, The database stores a pronunciation of the word or a pronunciation referring to the image, When the word or the image is displayed on the display window, the pronunciation of the word or pronunciation that refers to the image is output. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, The database stores a pronunciation of the word or a pronunciation referring to the image, After the display step, And a fast listening step of modifying and outputting the speed of the pronunciation stored in the database. The method of claim 9, After the display step, And a fast listening step of modifying and outputting the speed of the pronunciation stored in the database. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, Before the displaying step, A search request step of requesting a user to search for a word or an image; And A word detection step of searching for the word or the image in the database and detecting an image corresponding to the word or a word corresponding to the meaning of the image; Word learning method comprising the. The method of claim 9, Before the displaying step, A search request step of requesting a user to search for a word or an image; And A word detection step of searching for the word or the image in the database and detecting an image corresponding to the word or a word corresponding to the meaning of the image; Word learning method comprising the. The method of claim 10, Before the displaying step, A search request step of requesting a user to search for a word or an image; And A word detection step of searching for the word or the image in the database and detecting an image corresponding to the word or a word corresponding to the meaning of the image; Word learning method comprising the. The method of claim 11, Before the displaying step, A search request step of requesting a user to search for a word or an image; And A word detection step of searching for the word or the image in the database and detecting an image corresponding to the word or a word corresponding to the meaning of the image; Word learning method comprising the. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 15, Word learning apparatus applying the word learning method.

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