An educational system for learning japanese active proverbs

In this study, we have designed and implemented a Web-based system, JAPES, so that foreign people as well as Japanese young people can learn kotowaza, that is, Japanese active proverbs. The system consists of two sub systems, PATS and PEFS. The former is for proverbial learning by browsing an animation of ten seconds while the latter is for checking the memory retention of the meaning of proverbs. We have carried out a small evaluation experiment with five foreign college students as subjects to evaluate effectiveness of the system. From the result of the experiment, we observed that the system has equivalent learning effect to the text-based learning. Furthermore, from the answers of a questionnaire, all the participants of the experiment enjoyed learning proverbs, and most of them desired to use JAPES after the experiment.