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Mastering Japanese through Augmented Browsing

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IIWAS '13: Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

Pages 179 - 188

https://doi.org/10.1145/2539150.2539158

Published: 02 December 2013 Publication History

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In this paper we present an extensible framework for Web-based language learning. At the client side we make extensive use of augmented browsing technology to accommodate various language education approaches with an emphasis on incidental language learning. Though our system architecture is designed in a generic and language-independent way, we built our first use cases for Japanese due to the inherent challenges in studying this complex language. Based on first valuable feedback from students and instructors we have concentrated our recent development efforts on three important extensions: contextual Japanese character training, visualization of Japanese sentence structures, and personal vocabulary lists.

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Wloka BWiniwarter W(2021)DARE – a Comprehensive Methodology for Mastering KanjiThe 23rd International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence10.1145/3487664.3487791(425-433)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3487664.3487791
Winiwarter W(2017)KANGAROOProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services10.1145/3151759.3151764(535-544)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3151759.3151764
Winiwarter WAnderst-Kotsis GIndrawan-Santiago M(2015)JILLProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services10.1145/2837185.2837191(1-9)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2837185.2837191

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