Wednesday, March 20
5:45 PM-7:00 PM
PDT
Celebrity Ballroom 1&2

A Smart Speaker Application to Assist Japanese Onomatopoeia Learning: A Prototype

Poster/Demo ID: 54541
  1. Takahiro Tagawa
    Kyushu University
  2. Meng Jin
    Kyushu University
  3. Hitoshi Inoue
    College of Healthcare Management

Abstract: This paper describes the characteristics of smart speaker and how and why this device is expected to play new role in language learning. Next we describe the characteristics of words called “onomatopoeia”, and the difficulties in learning them. We build a prototype of the application for smart speakers to learn Japanese onomatopoeia, implemented as a simple quiz application that plays the audio file as the question and requests the learner to answer what onomatopoeia to be used to express the sound. Then we discuss the findings from the prototype, and the future vision of the application of smart speakers to be combined with other learning assistant/management systems.

Presider: Monique Woodard, Wilkes University

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