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Evaluating e-resources for Japanese language learning

The aim of this paper is to evaluate and compare electronic resources for the Japanese language in terms of their usability for Japanese language learners. The paper focuses on a computer assisted language learning (CALL) system developed to support learners in reading Japanese language texts, the Japanese Language Reading Tutorial System “Reading Tutor”, and the e-dictionary server “WWWDJDIC” with its extended functions. Each system was introduced and used in the classroom for various teacher- planned reading and comprehension tasks. The paper outlines the advantages and disadvantages of the systems that were identified during classroom usage by university students enrolled on a Japanese language course, and discusses the results of a survey conducted in order to explore student opinion, preferences and usage habits regarding the resources. In addition, the paper also notes and briefly addresses some other e-dictionaries, e-resources and tools covered in the survey, such as the pop-up support dictionary tools “Rikai-chan”, “Perapera-kun”, and “Popjisyo”, the Japanese Reading System for Multi-Lingual Environments “Asunaro”, and the Writing Support System “Natsume”, as well as the corpus query system “Sketch Engine” with “Word Sketches”, which automatically extracts collocational information for the Japanese language.

e-resources ; CALL systems ; Japanese language learning ; evaluation ; reading and comprehension tasks ; student survey

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