KR20120080399A - Apparatus and method of providing language learing material in online game - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A study content supplying system and a method on a language learning online game is provided to enable a user to experience something like staying in a foreign nation and to learn the language of the foreign nation by using a foreign language when the user is supplied various experiences through virtual reality. CONSTITUTION: An account management unit(110) stores an account information according to each client. Receiving an account login information from one client, a login processing unit(120) permits a login, if the received information is correspond to prestored account login information. A virtual reality supplying unit(130) offers a virtual reality environment. A contents database stores many foreign language learning questions.

Description

System for providing learning contents in online game for language learning and method thereof {APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING LANGUAGE LEARING MATERIAL IN ONLINE GAME}

The present invention relates to a content providing method for learning a foreign language through an online game.

With the proliferation of the Internet infrastructure, stand-alone games, which were previously played on personal computer or home game console platforms, have become increasingly online.

These online games range from casually playable casual games to massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs), where thousands and tens of thousands of concurrent users manipulate their player characters to form parties or collaborate on quests. Has evolved.

On the other hand, such online games have been attracting attention from gamers by providing high immersion and interest, but they have been criticized as being a wasteful hobby due to the time-consuming progress of the game.

However, in connection with learning by utilizing the characteristics of these online games, research has been conducted on the connection points between the online game infrastructure and the contents for learning because they can cause high immersion and interest in learning.

In other words, if you can enjoy the online game and at the same time enjoy a certain learning effect through the process, the positive aspect of the online game can be doubled. This can be very helpful in attracting subscribers, and can provide trust and satisfaction to parents who are concerned about their academic performance if they are younger.

Nevertheless, the successful combination model of online game and learning contents has not been suggested yet.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, while operating a player character in a virtual reality environment to have a variety of experiences at this time by using a foreign language to acquire a foreign language in an environment with foreigners in a foreign country An object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for providing learning contents in an on-line game for language learning that induces a learning effect.

In order to achieve the above object, there is provided a learning content providing system in an online game for learning languages according to the present invention, comprising: account management means for storing account information including account login information, learning level information, and interest item information for each client;

Login processing means for allowing login upon matching with previously stored account login information when receiving account login information from any one of the clients connected through a network;

Virtual reality providing means for providing a virtual reality environment so that the logged-in client can manipulate and move his / her player character on the map in the online game or interact with objects in the NPC or other virtual reality;

A content database for storing a plurality of foreign language study items;

When interacting with the player character of the client and the object in the NPC or other virtual reality, the foreign language learning item corresponding to the learning level information or the interest item information of the client is extracted from the content database, and the drawn foreign language learning item is drawn in the virtual reality. Learning item providing means provided by; And

And learning level information updating means for updating the learning level information of the client by using a correct answer rate for foreign language learning items provided in the virtual reality.

On the other hand, in order to achieve the above object, the learning content providing method in the online game for language learning according to the present invention, upon receiving the account login information from any one of the clients connected through the network when matching with the previously stored account login information Permitting login, but extracting learning level information and interest item information from account information of the client;

Providing a virtual reality environment so that the logged-in client can manipulate and move his / her player character on an online game map or interact with an object in an NPC or another virtual reality;

Among the plurality of foreign language learning items stored when interacting with the player character of the client and the NPC or other virtual reality objects, the foreign language learning items corresponding to the learning level information or the interest item information of the client are drawn out, and the extracted foreign language learning items are drawn out. Step 130 for providing in the virtual reality; And

And determining whether the foreign language learning item is correct according to an input from the client, and updating the learning level information of the client using the correct answer rate.

According to the present invention, by providing a variety of experiences through virtual reality, but by using a foreign language at this time to provide an experience similar to staying in a foreign country and acquiring the language of the country.

In particular, if you show interest in a specific field, you can display new NPCs or objects in virtual reality for further study related to the field, or enable new interactions with existing NPCs or objects. It is possible to provide learning contents.

As a result, the motivation for learning is increased, as well as the immersion degree is increased by using the online game infrastructure, thereby improving the learning efficiency.

1 is a network diagram illustrating a connection relationship between a learning content providing system and a plurality of clients in a language learning online game according to the present invention;
2 is a functional block diagram illustrating the components of a system for providing learning contents in an online game for language learning according to the present invention;
3 is an exemplary screen illustrating a process of interaction between a player character of a client and an NPC other object through virtual reality;
4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing learning content in a language game online game according to the present invention in time series.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the configuration of the learning content providing system in the online game for language learning according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the learning content providing system 100 in the online game for language learning according to the present invention is connected to a plurality of clients 1 connected through an internet network.

That is, the learning content providing system 100 and a plurality of clients 1 in a language learning online game form a general client-server structure. The learning content providing system 100 in a language learning online game 100 includes a plurality of clients. (1) provides various data including game client software executed at the client end.

The clients 1 access the learning content providing system 100 in the online game for language learning by executing the provided software, and receive and process various data for executing the game so that the user can enjoy the game.

The client 1 may be a personal computer, but if the client software can be connected to a server through a network by executing client software, the form of a smartphone, a tablet, etc. should be understood as irrelevant.

On the other hand, the learning content providing system 100 in a language learning online game according to the present invention, as shown in Figure 2, the account management means 100, login processing means 120, virtual reality providing means 130, content Database 140, learning item providing means 150, learning level information updating means 160 and interest item information updating means 170 is provided.

The account management means 110 stores account information including account login information, learning level information, and interest item information for each client.

When the login processing unit 120 receives login information such as an account ID and a password from any one client 1 connected through a network, the login processing unit 120 allows login upon matching with previously stored account login information.

The account management means 110 and the login processing means 120 stores the account information for each client, but the operation of the conventional online game server in that the login is allowed if the ID, password and input value stored in the account is matched. Although not different from the process, there is a difference in that it stores the learning level information and the interest item information in the account information and withdraws them upon login.

As described later, the learning level information indicates how well the gamer understands the learning contents provided by the learning content providing system 100 in the online game for language learning according to the present invention, and how much language level has been reached. Corresponding to the value evaluated by the standard, the interest item information shows more interest in any content and any field among the various contents in the virtual reality provided by the learning content providing system 100 in the online game for language learning according to the present invention. It is the information which evaluated whether there exists.

The virtual reality providing means 130 allows the client 1 logged in to manipulate the player character on the map in the online game to move or interact with a non-player character or another virtual reality object. Provide a real environment.

Interaction with NPCs or objects refers to NPCs, various operations and functions that can be performed with the object by manipulating the player character in virtual reality. For example, interacting with NPCs, using, picking up, observing objects, etc. This is it.

FIG. 3 (a) illustrates the player character and the NPCs displayed in 3D graphics in the virtual reality, and FIG. 3 (b) shows the player character on the left and the NPC "Michael" on the right communicating in English. To illustrate.

On the other hand, the learning content providing system 100 in the online game for language learning according to the present invention provides an environment for learning a foreign language in such a virtual reality, a foreign language that can be solved in a subjective or objective way to implement a foreign language learning environment. The problem may be provided, and the process of the game itself may be handled in a manner such as dialogue through a foreign language, as shown in FIG.

To this end, the content database 140 stores a plurality of foreign language learning items, and the learning item providing means 150 controls the learning level information of the client from the content database when interacting with a player character and an NPC or an object in another virtual reality. It draws foreign language learning items that match the interest item information, and provides the extracted foreign language learning items in virtual reality.

A plurality of foreign language learning items stored in the content database 140 may be classified by difficulty level or may be classified and stored by interest field. The learning item providing means 150 is a learning item having a low difficulty level when the learning level of the client 1 is a novice level at the time of withdrawal of the learning item, and a learning item having a corresponding difficulty level when the learning level is above a certain level. It will be possible to withdraw and provide. In addition, if it is determined that the degree of interest in "physics" is high based on the interest item information drawn from the account of the client 1, the study item containing the contents related to "physics" among the foreign language learning items stored in advance is selected. Can be withdrawn and provided.

The provision of learning questions is not a simple and inefficient way of showing fingerprints and choosing the correct answer, like taking an offline test because of the nature of language learning, but through dialogue with NPCs to learn languages naturally through experiences through virtual reality. In many situations, it is desirable to instruct people to speak and listen to the expressions they need in their lives.

This allows you to have a similar experience as if you were studying abroad.

However, you may not be interested in listening to or following foreign languages simply by talking to NPCs or interacting with various objects provided in virtual reality. Providing content in the form of a game can be inspiring interest and achievement.

This may be implemented by constructing the story of the game in a way to solve the provided foreign language learning questions, wherein the learning item providing means 150 is a user by operating the player character through the client 1 NPC or other virtual When interacting with the object in the reality, it is possible to provide a foreign language learning question in the form of dialogue with the corresponding NPC or object in a foreign language.

That is, as shown in (b) of FIG. 3, when the NPC speaks a foreign language learning question in a foreign language, it is reproduced through the speaker of the client 1, and in some cases, the caption is displayed on the screen of the client 1. The user hears this and enters the appropriate answer.

Looking at the process of providing foreign language learning items in detail, when the level of foreign language learning is low based on the learning level information drawn from the account of the client (1), first of all, the language of the object in the NPC or virtual reality is used to become familiar with the foreign language listening. When the corresponding foreign language sentence is to be played back through the speaker of the client 1, but the user inputs the keyboard of the client 1 or receives a voice input through the microphone of the client 1, the learning item providing means 150 Determine whether the answer is correct.

If this process is repeated sufficiently and the learning level of the client 1 is improved, that is, when it is determined that the level of learning level is reached based on the learning level information, the foreign language sentence is simply listened and followed by the foreign language sentence. Allows the user to acquire knowledge in the field of interest through the foreign language. That is, when withdrawing the foreign language learning item of the learning item providing means 150, the degree of interest of the client 1 may be referred to when the learning level of the client 1 is more than a certain level.

This allows the user to solve the problem by not only following the pronunciation but also receiving a problem related to a knowledge of a specific field in a foreign language and inputting it through an input device such as a keyboard.

On the other hand, when the user solves the foreign language learning item provided by manipulating his player character in the virtual reality through the client 1, the learning level information updating means 160 uses the correct answer rate to the client (1) Update the learning level information of the client to store in the account (1).

Foreign language learning items may have a difficulty field separately when stored in the content database 140. For example, if the client 1 determines that the correct answer rate exceeds 80% for a foreign language learning item of a certain difficulty level, Since the learning level of the user can be seen as being higher than the item, it is possible to provide more difficult items by adjusting the learning level information of the client 1.

On the other hand, in addition to collecting the learning level information as described above, the system for providing content for learning in the online game for language learning according to the present invention 100 may be connected to an object in the virtual reality NPC or another virtual reality of the player character of the client 1. By monitoring the interaction of the client (1) to grasp the interest.

According to the above, foreign language learning items provided in the virtual reality cover various fields, and when the learning level of the client 1 improves more than a certain level, more foreign language learning items related to the interests of the client 1 become more. It can be seen that it leads to the learning of the user's interests to be naturally provided. First, the interest of the client (1) must be grasped, and second, it can be naturally learned in the virtual reality. It should be able to provide a living environment.

When interacting with NPCs or objects in virtual reality, if a dialogue or foreign language study item related to a specific field is provided, and the user is interested in the field, the user will frequently attempt to interact with the NPC or objects.

Accordingly, the virtual reality providing unit 130 stores the NPC or the object information of interest items indicating how relevant the NPC or the object is in relation to a specific field or related to the field. That is, certain NPCs are related to physics.

And, the interest item information updating means 170, when interacting with the player character of the client 1 and the NPC or other virtual reality object, using the interest item information value of the NPC or the object of interest of the client 1 Update the information.

That is, when frequent interaction with an NPC or an object having an interest item information value related to a particular field, the corresponding client 1 is updated with high interest in the field. The updated item of interest information is stored in the account of the client 1 and withdrawn again upon login.

On the other hand, in the virtual reality provided by the virtual reality providing means 130, when the player character is instructed to interact with the NPC or the objects in a foreign language to learn or talk, the virtual reality providing means 130 According to the change of interest information of the client 1, NPC or object having a specific interest information value is displayed in the virtual reality provided to the client, or a specific interaction with the NPC or object having a specific interest information value is displayed. Make it possible.

That is, NPCs or objects in virtual reality that were not displayed in the virtual reality provided to the client 1 until the client 1 showed interest in a specific field, and correspond to the NPCs or objects corresponding to the interests of the client 1. New types of interactions are possible in addition to the interactions that have been made with new or previously displayed NPCs or objects.

Through this, the client 1 can learn a new content in a foreign language or have a conversation in relation to the field of interest.

Hereinafter, a method of providing learning content in an online game for language learning according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing learning content in a language game online game according to the present invention in time series.

Referring to FIG. 4, when receiving account login information from any one client connected through a network, the learning content providing system 100 in a language learning online game allows login upon matching with previously stored account login information. do.

Meanwhile, as the login is permitted, the learning content providing system 100 in the online game for language learning retrieves the learning level information and the interest item information of the client 1 from the DB in which the account information is stored (S110).

Meanwhile, a virtual reality environment is provided so that the logged-in client 10 may manipulate and move his / her own player character on an online game map or interact with an NPC or another virtual reality object (S120).

Thereafter, among the plurality of foreign language learning items stored during interaction with the player character of the client 1 and the object in the NPC or other virtual reality, the foreign language learning item corresponding to the learning level information of the client or the item of interest information is withdrawn, The drawn foreign language learning item is provided in virtual reality (S130).

In other words, the player character can be freely manipulated in the virtual reality environment, and the foreign language can be naturally learned by using a foreign language whenever there is an interaction with an NPC or an object in the virtual reality, and further provided to the user in the form of a problem. To make learning more effective.

Provision of a foreign language learning item may be performed in the form of talking to a foreign language with an NPC or another virtual reality object when the player character of the client 1 interacts with an NPC or another virtual reality object.

When the foreign language learning item is provided as described above, the user inputs a correct answer through an input device such as a keyboard or a microphone of the client 1, and the learning content providing system 100 in the online game for language learning accordingly provides the foreign language learning accordingly. Determine if the question is correct. Meanwhile, the learning level information of the client 1 is updated using the correct answer rate and stored in the client 1 account (S140).

On the other hand, the NPC or other virtual reality objects displayed in the virtual reality environment each have a pre-assigned item of interest information value, the learning content providing system 100 in the online game for language learning and the player character of the client (1) When interacting with an object in the NPC or other virtual reality, the interest item information of the client is updated using the interest item information value assigned to each object in the NPC or other virtual reality and stored in the account of the client 1 (S150). ).

That is, it may be determined that the client 1 is more interested in the NPC or the object that is frequently interacted with.

As such, when the interest item information of the client 1 is updated and changed, the NPC or object having a specific interest item information value is newly displayed in the virtual reality provided to the client 1 or has a specific interest item information value. It is possible to enable a new interaction with the NPC or the object (S160).

In other words, more conversations can be made through foreign languages on the client's interests and more foreign language learning questions can be solved.

In this way, according to the learning level or interest of the client 1, the appropriate foreign language learning item is drawn out and provided in the virtual reality environment. When the learning level of the client 1 is sufficiently low, the object in the NPC or other virtual reality is By reproducing a foreign language sentence within the virtual reality, the foreign language learning item can be provided and the user can be instructed to follow the foreign language sentence provided through a microphone input or a keyboard input to become familiar with the pronunciation or sentence of the corresponding language.

However, if it is determined that the learning level reaches a certain level and there is no great difficulty in simply following the sentence, the content of the client 1 may be provided in the form of a foreign language study item to provide deep learning about the field of interest. Can be induced.

The method of providing learning contents in the online game for language learning as described above may be produced in the form of a computer program and may be stored in a computer-readable recording medium and executed in a server connected to one or more clients through a network.

While the present invention has been described with reference to several embodiments, these embodiments have been disclosed for purposes of illustration, and those skilled in the art will be able to make various modifications, changes, and additions within the spirit and scope of the present invention. This is to be construed as not departing from the scope of the following claims.

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110: account management means 120: login processing means
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Claims (17)

Account management means for storing account information including account login information, learning level information, and interest item information for each client;
Login processing means for allowing login upon matching with previously stored account login information when receiving account login information from any one of the clients connected through a network;
Virtual reality providing means for providing a virtual reality environment so that the logged-in client can manipulate and move his / her player character on the map in the online game or interact with objects in the NPC or other virtual reality;
A content database for storing a plurality of foreign language study items;
When interacting with the player character of the client and the object in the NPC or other virtual reality, the foreign language learning item corresponding to the learning level information or the interest item information of the client is extracted from the content database, and the drawn foreign language learning item is drawn in the virtual reality. Learning item providing means provided by; And
And learning level information updating means for updating learning level information of the client using a correct answer rate for foreign language learning items provided in the virtual reality.
The method of claim 1,
The learning item providing means provides a foreign language learning item in a form in which the client character of the client interacts with an NPC or other virtual reality object in a foreign language with the NPC or other virtual reality object. Learning content providing system in the game.
The method of claim 1,
The virtual reality providing means is a learning content providing system in the online game for language learning, characterized in that for storing the item of interest information assigned to each object in the NPC or other virtual reality.
The method of claim 3, wherein
Interest item information updating means for updating the interest item information of the client by using the interest item information value assigned to each NPC or other object in the virtual reality when the player character of the client interacts with the object in the NPC or other virtual reality; Learning content providing system in an online game for language learning, further comprising a.
The method of claim 4, wherein
The virtual reality providing means displays an NPC or an object having a specific interest item information value in the virtual reality provided to the client according to a change of the interest item information of the client, or the NPC or object having a specific interest item information value. A system for providing learning contents in an online game for language learning, characterized by enabling a specific interaction.
The method of claim 1,
The learning item providing means provides a foreign language learning item by reproducing a foreign language sentence in a virtual reality through the NPC or another virtual reality object when the learning level information value of the client is within a threshold value. A system for providing learning contents in online games for language learning.
The method according to claim 6,
When the learning item providing means receives a keyboard input from the client or a voice input through a microphone, the learning item providing means determines whether or not the answer is correct by determining whether or not the voice reproduced the foreign language sentence. Learning content provision system.
The method according to claim 6,
And the learning item providing means provides a foreign language learning item corresponding to the interest item information of the client when the learning level information value of the client deviates from a threshold value.
Step 110, when receiving the account login information from any one of the clients connected through the network, allowing login when matching the previously stored account login information, and extracting learning level information and interest item information from the account information of the client;
Providing a virtual reality environment so that the logged-in client can manipulate and move his / her player character on an online game map or interact with an object in an NPC or another virtual reality;
Among the plurality of foreign language learning items stored when interacting with the player character of the client and the NPC or other virtual reality objects, the foreign language learning items corresponding to the learning level information or the interest item information of the client are drawn out, and the extracted foreign language learning items are drawn out. Step 130 for providing in the virtual reality; And
And determining whether the foreign language learning item is correct according to an input from the client, and updating the learning level information of the client using the correct answer rate. How to provide content.
The method of claim 9,
In step 130, when a player character of the client interacts with an object in an NPC or another virtual reality, the foreign language learning item is provided in a form of communicating with the NPC or another object in the virtual reality in a foreign language. How to provide learning content in the game.
The method of claim 9,
In the step 120, NPC or other virtual reality objects, each learning content providing method in the online game for language learning, characterized in that each has a predetermined interest item information value.
The method of claim 11,
After the operation 130, when the player character of the client interacts with an NPC or other virtual reality object, the interest item information of the client is updated by using the interest item information value assigned to each of the NPC or other virtual reality object. 150. The method of providing learning content in an online game for language learning, further comprising;
The method of claim 12,
After step 150, the NPC or object having a specific interest item information value is displayed in the virtual reality provided to the client according to the change of the interest item information of the client, or the NPC or object having a specific interest item information value is displayed. The method of providing learning contents in the online game for language learning, further comprising the step (160) of processing to enable a specific interaction.
The method of claim 9,
In step 130, when the learning level information value of the client is within a threshold value, the foreign language learning item is provided by reproducing a foreign language sentence in the virtual reality through the NPC or another virtual reality object. Method of providing learning contents in online game for language learning.
15. The method of claim 14,
In the step 140, when the keyboard input from the client or the voice input through the microphone is provided, the learning of the online game for language learning is determined by determining whether the answer is correct or not by matching the foreign-language sentence reproduced with the voice. How to provide content.
15. The method of claim 14,
In step 130, when the learning level information value of the client deviates from the threshold value, the learning content providing method in the online game for language learning, characterized by providing a foreign language learning item corresponding to the interest item information of the client.
A computer-readable recording medium containing a method of providing learning contents in an online game for language learning according to any one of claims 9 to 16.

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