Development of Adaptive Kanji Learning System for Mobile Phone

Abstract

This paper describes an adaptive learning system based on mobile phone email to support the study of Japanese Kanji. In this study, the main emphasis is on using the adaptive learning to resolve one common problem of the mobile-based email or SMS language learning systems. To achieve this goal, the authors main efforts focus on three aspects: sending the contents to a learner following his or her interests, adjusting the difficulty level of the tests to suit the learner’s proficiency level, and adapting the system to his or her learning style. Additionally, this system has already been evaluated by the learners and the results show that most of them benefited from the system and would like to continue using it.

Internet-Based Technology Use in Second Language Learning

“…MALL is also reported to be an effective way for specific second language acquisi-tion (Che, Lin, Jang, Lien, & Tsai, 2009;de Jong, Specht, & Koper, 2010;Demouy & Kukulska-Hulme, 2010;Kiernan & Aizawa, 2004;Kukulska-Hulme, 2009;Li et al, 2010). For instance, the effects of using vocabulary learning programs on mobile phones in relation to students' English vocabulary learning are investigated with Turkish college students (Basoglu & Akdemir, 2010).…”