Educational Effect of Kanji Learning System

Abstract

The result of the research of the educational effect of Kanji (Chinese character) learning system is described in this thesis. Kanji learning system was made so that the grade-schooler and the foreigner in the living in Japan may study kanji joyfully and efficiently. An existing system is composed of the client Application program and the Server Application program. The client application program has function to grade characteristics of Kanji, "Tome", "Hane", "Harai" and more. However, this system didn't use for actual study of Kanji. Therefore, two experiments were conducted on college students to verify educational effect of this. In this time, educational effect was defined the change of percentage of correct answers. Also, it was considered as learning time and the number of times writing Kanji in once learning time. The purpose of the first experiment in this research is measurement educational effect to learn stroke order of Kanji. Second experiment's purpose is comparison educational effect between learning process of this system and usual learning process writing Kanji on paper. From these experiments, it seems Kanji learning system is given large educational effort about the stroke order of Kanji to students. On the other hand, it seems that the effect of memorized of Kanji given from Kanji learning system is small. However, looking at the results of these comprehensive, it seems that Kanji learning system can be given more educational effect than the usual learning process to write Kanji many times.