Automatic generation of English lesson materials for native speakers of Japanese

This paper describes a computer program, a Lesson Material Builder, that is designed to automatically generate editable lesson materials for teaching English to speakers of Japanese. This program has two functions, a) an Exercise Creator, and b) a Vocabulary Quiz Creator. The Exercise Creator automatically creates an editable reading exercise document, from an input text, in which target vocabulary words are highlighted and definitions in Japanese are provided. Taking a reading exercise, of the sort produced by the Exercise Creator, the Vocabulary Quiz Creator can create vocabulary quizzes that require students to match vocabulary words with their definitions.