CN1474264A - Chinese learning method for interactive conversation by computer - Google Patents

Abstract

A Chinese teaching method for interactive conversation with computer features that the role playing and pronunciation information are provided and the recording is performed. After the user starts the interactive session learning system, according to the selection of the user on session articles and role playing; providing operations of a playing instruction, a prompting instruction and a recording instruction; then recording the pronunciation information of the user according to the recording instruction; finally, the recorded pronunciation information is used for tone comparison and sending out tone comparison results and pronunciation suggestion information.

Description

A Chinese Learning Method Using Computers for Interactive Conversation

technical field

The invention relates to a method for learning Chinese by using a computer, in particular to a method for learning Chinese by using a computer for interactive conversation.

Background technique

In the process of language learning, people often need to use various language reference books to assist them in language learning. In addition to traditional paper dictionaries and dictionaries, today's language reference books mainly use some computer software and existing Electronic dictionaries or translation software combined with databases are provided, and these electronic dictionaries or translation software can provide user operation interfaces with the help of computers, language learning machines or mobile communication devices.

These currently used language reference books are mainly based on word translation, some provide translation of sentences, some provide reading example sentences, and some provide pronunciation of words, making these language reference books more and more able to help users Answers to your questions.

However, in the field of language learning, if the language reference book is only used as a tool for translating words or sentences, it will inevitably fail to meet the needs of users. And because the application of traditional language reference books is a passive language teaching mode, users only use language reference books when reading articles or looking up words in the process of language learning. Although this learning method can help users learn language, but it will take some time for its effect to become apparent.

In the modern society where speed and efficiency are sought, active learning methods can improve users' learning efficiency. Therefore, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the current language reference books on how to improve learning efficiency and learning interest.

Contents of the invention

The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of language learning method that utilizes computer to carry out interactive conversation, by means of this method, through role-playing and the mode of pronunciation information provision and recording, carry out dialogue with computer to learn language, can improve user's Language skills related to listening, speaking, reading and writing. To overcome the existing problems in the known technology.

The above-mentioned purpose of the present invention is achieved like this: a kind of language study method that utilizes computer to carry out interactive conversation, and this method comprises the following steps:

Display and select a session article;

Provide a role-play option based on the conversational passage;

selecting a role according to the role-playing option;

activating a play command, a prompt command and a recording command according to the character;

recording a pronunciation information of a user according to the recording instruction; and

Perform intonation comparison according to the pronunciation information, and send an intonation comparison result and pronunciation suggestion information.

The language learning method using a computer for interactive conversation according to the present invention further includes playing a sound information of the conversational article according to the playing instruction.

The method for learning a language using a computer for interactive conversation according to the present invention further includes displaying an intonation prompting information of the conversational article according to the prompting instruction.

In the language learning method using a computer for interactive conversation according to the present invention, the intonation prompt information is represented by a picture.

The language learning method using a computer for interactive conversation according to the present invention also includes starting a hearing test program, and prompting the user to answer by means of pronunciation.

The language learning method using a computer for interactive conversation according to the present invention also includes a picture prompt.

According to the language learning method using a computer for interactive conversation in the present invention, the method also provides the design of a display content change of a screen saver, the design of a start-up screen display content change, or the design of a desktop display content change.

It can be seen that the system of the present invention includes a database, an interactive conversation teaching module, a test unit and a recording and listening unit.

As for the method of the present invention: firstly, after the user starts the interactive conversation learning system, the system displays and accepts the selection of a conversation article; then the role-playing option is provided for the user to choose; The character sends out playback commands, prompt commands, and recording commands; then records the user's pronunciation information according to the recording commands; finally uses the recorded pronunciation information to perform intonation comparison and sends intonation comparison results and pronunciation suggestion information.

The technical features and practical effects of the present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with specific embodiments and accompanying drawings.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the system of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the operation flowchart of the present invention carrying out interactive session;

Fig. 3A is the flow chart of learning mode selection of the present invention;

Fig. 3B is a flow chart of the extended learning mode selection of the present invention;

Fig. 3C is a flow chart of selecting a personalized learning mode of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a display diagram of a user operation interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is the whole sentence formula translation figure of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is the word explanatory figure of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 7 is the role-playing selection figure of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 8 is the whole sentence recording and pronunciation intonation prompt figure of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 9 is a hearing test topic and a prompt diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 10 is a listening test topic and a prompt diagram of another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 11 is the subject word learning option figure of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 12 is a diagram of the learning options of idioms in the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 13 is the sentence pattern learning option figure of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 14 is the relevant sentence pattern usage option figure of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 15 is the word spelling test display figure of an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 16 is the word spelling test display figure of another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 17 is a setting diagram for making a desktop, a boot screen or a screen saver according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 18 is a key word selection diagram of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 19 is a 4-grid screen display diagram of the desktop, boot screen or screen saver of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 20 is a full-screen display diagram of the desktop, boot screen or screen saver according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

A language learning method that uses a computer to conduct interactive conversations, with the help of role-playing and the provision of pronunciation information and recording methods, a language teaching method that conducts dialogue learning with a computer; with the provision of this method, it will be possible to improve the user's ability to The purpose of language application is related to listening, speaking, reading and writing. Therefore, in order to achieve the above object, the present invention can be realized by means of two aspects of the system and the method.

First, the structure of the system is described with the system structure schematic diagram of the present invention shown in Fig. 1; The writing learning program of the interactive conversational language learning system 200 is used for language learning; wherein the interactive conversational language learning system 200 includes a database 210 , an interactive conversational teaching module 220 , a test unit 230 and a recording and listening unit 240 .

The above-mentioned database 210 is responsible for storing all the relevant interactive conversation teaching materials and their related pronunciation information; the interactive conversation teaching module 220 is responsible for extracting the interactive conversation teaching materials and their related pronunciation information from the database 210, and displaying or Play it out; test unit 230, coupled with the interactive conversation teaching module 220, is responsible for providing test questions related to the setting and conversation teaching content according to the user's setting, and in the form of graphics, sound or text, Informing or prompting the user; the audio-audio learning unit 240 is coupled with the interactive conversation teaching module 220 and is responsible for performing audio-audio learning according to the indications made by the user during the conversation teaching process.

When the user utilizes the language reference book to carry out the language learning of this kind of interactive conversation teaching, after the user starts the interactive conversation language learning system 200, the interactive conversation teaching module 220 promptly displays the index list of relevant conversation teaching articles for the user Choose to carry out course learning, after the user selects a conversational article according to the index list, the interactive conversational teaching module 220 promptly enters the database 210 according to the user's selection, and extracts the content data of the conversational article for display, and then the user can Through the operation interface provided by the system, a word or a sentence is selected for pronunciation learning. During the learning process, the user can also use the audio-recording unit 240 to perform audio-recording learning to assist the user to further deepen the pronunciation of a specific word or sentence. Pronunciation exercises.

In the later part of the learning process, the user can further use the test method provided by the system, and the test unit 230 provides test questions, and provides test questions in the form of graphics, sound or text to test the user, so as to check and correct the user. The results of learning, in addition, the test unit 230 also provides a setting method for the test question type, and the user can design the question type by himself, so as to adapt to various test questions in the form of sound, graphics or text.

After the description of the system structure, continue to use the flow chart of the interactive conversation of the present invention shown in FIG. 2 to illustrate the operation flow of the system of the present invention.

In Fig. 2, firstly, after the user starts the interactive conversation course, the system will first display the index list of interactive conversation articles (step 300) for the user to select; The selected article will display its article content (step 310); the user can then select the role-playing mode (step 320) to carry out pronunciation learning; The role of the article provides role-playing options (step 330) for the user to choose; the user can choose the role to play according to the options provided (step 340), after the user's selection, other unselected The role is played by the system; the user conducts dialogue exercises with the system (step 350); before the user pronounces, the system plays the sentence pronunciation information (step 360) that the user assumes the role; and displays an intonation prompt The information informs the user how to pronounce and prepare for the prompt of the recording (step 370); after the sentence pronunciation information has been played, start recording the user's pronunciation information; According to the comparison result, the intonation comparison result and pronunciation suggestion information are sent (step 390).

Next, an embodiment is used to illustrate the operation process of the entire interactive conversation learning system with the flow charts in FIG. 3A to FIG. 3C and the embodiment diagrams in FIG. 4 to FIG. 20 .

As shown in the learning mode selection flow chart of the present invention of Fig. 3A; The mode is for the user to choose, as shown in the user operation interface display diagram of the embodiment of the present invention of Fig. 4; Now the user can select the learning start mode (step 420) according to the content of the article and the operation interface provided by the system, wherein The learning mode of the system provides such as dictionary query mode, whole sentence translation mode, interactive role-playing mode or recording teaching mode, and also provides further extended learning or modes that meet individualized learning methods.

When the user is reading a conversational article, when he does not know or understand its meaning for the relevant words or sentence parts of the content part, the dictionary or translation options (as shown in Figure 4) provided by the system can be used to execute the word interpretation mode (step 450) or sentence translation mode (step 460), after the system receives the user's request, it executes individual programs (step 490) according to the selected learning mode, and after the user selects the word or sentence of the query, the display The result of the whole sentence translation graph of the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 5 or the word interpretation graph of the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 6 .

When the user is reading a conversational article, if he wants to learn the pronunciation of the relevant language conversation or the intonation of the pronunciation in the conversation, etc., he can use the role-playing or recording listening option (as shown in Figure 4) provided by the system to perform the conversation. Role-playing mode (step 430) or recording listening mode (step 440), after the system receives the user's request, it executes individual programs according to the selected learning mode (step 490), as shown in the conversational operation flow chart in Figure 2 As shown, execute the relevant execution program; wherein when the user executes the role-playing mode (step 430), the system will first provide the role-playing selection diagram of the embodiment of the present invention as shown in Figure 7, for the user to select a role to perform language Pronunciation learning or simulation dialogue learning between computers; in addition, when the user executes the recording listening mode (step 440), when the user chooses a sentence to learn its pronunciation intonation, the present invention as shown in Figure 8 will be displayed. The entire sentence recording and pronunciation intonation prompt map of the embodiment guide the user's pronunciation, and provide a correction message to correct the user's pronunciation intonation after the user has finished pronunciation.

After the user reads the conversation article, he can do further Chinese conversation learning through the extended learning mode (step 470) provided by the system, wherein the system provides a selection learning method (step 471), mainly providing the learning mode and theme of the listening test Word learning mode, sentence pattern learning mode and idiom learning mode, etc., are used to further improve the user's ability in listening, sentence pattern or word learning.

As shown in the extended study mode selection flow chart of the present invention of Fig. 3B; When the user selects to carry out extended study with hearing test (step 472), the system will provide the hearing test of an embodiment of the present invention as shown in Fig. 9 The question and prompting diagram or the questioning method of the hearing test topic and the prompting diagram of another embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. Facilitate users' learning about listening.

If the user selects to carry out extended study with topic word learning (step 473), system will provide the topic word learning option figure of the embodiment of the present invention as shown in Figure 11, for the user to learn the topic word of this conversational article, To carry out the learning of new words; if the user selects to carry out extended study with the idiomatic language learning (step 475) mode, the system will provide the idiomatic language learning option figure of the embodiment of the present invention as shown in Figure 12, for the user to study this The idioms of a conversational article, in order to learn the idioms.

In addition when the user selects to carry out extended study with sentence pattern learning (step 474), system will provide the sentence pattern learning option figure of the embodiment of the present invention as shown in Figure 13, provide the important sentence pattern in this conversational article, And after clicking any sentence pattern among them through the user, provide other other relevant sentence pattern usages of this sentence pattern again, as shown in the relevant sentence pattern usage option figure of the embodiment of the present invention of Fig. 14, to promote the user's understanding more Many sentence patterns.

After learning the pronunciation exercises or extended learning of the interactive conversation, the user can also use the personalized learning mode (step 480) provided by the system to further study in line with the user's needs; wherein the personalized learning mode further provides In order to select the learning mode (step 481), the mode including word spelling learning mode (step 483) and desktop setting (step 482) is provided to provide the environment for the user to learn, and cause the user to replace and learn the word.

As shown in the personalized learning mode selection flow chart of the present invention of Figure 3C; Or the word spelling test of another embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 16 shows the topic type of the graph, as a learning method or a way of memorizing words that cause the user to replace words.

As for the learning mode of selecting the desktop setting (step 482), not only by means of the display mode of the desktop, but also through the setting of the screen saver or the setting of the boot screen, the desktop of the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 17 can be made. , boot screen or screen saver setting diagram to set the display mode of desktop, screen saver or boot screen content, and change the display content by means of the key word selection diagram of the embodiment of the present invention as shown in Figure 18 ; Finally, after the user's setting and selection, present the desktop of the embodiment of the present invention as shown in Figure 19, the start-up picture or the 4-grid screen display diagram of the embodiment of the present invention shown in Figure 20 or the screen saver The result of a full-screen display of the desktop, screen saver or screen saver with which the user can learn a language at any time.

Although the present invention is disclosed above with the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Any person familiar with the art may make appropriate changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the patent protection scope of the present invention is based on the scope determined by the claims.

Claims (9)

1, a kind of language learning method that utilizes computer to carry out interactive conversation, it is characterized in that, this method comprises the following steps: Display and select a session article; Provide a role-play option based on the conversational passage; selecting a role according to the role-playing option; activating a play command, a prompt command and a recording command according to the role; recording a pronunciation information of a user according to the recording instruction; and Perform intonation comparison according to the pronunciation information, and send an intonation comparison result and pronunciation suggestion information. 2. The method for learning a language using a computer for interactive conversation as claimed in claim 1, further comprising playing a voice message of the conversation article according to the play instruction. 3. The method for learning a language using a computer for interactive conversation as claimed in claim 1, further comprising displaying an intonation prompt information of the conversation article according to the prompt instruction. 4. The method for learning a language using a computer for interactive conversation as claimed in claim 3, wherein the intonation prompt information is a picture representation. 5. The language learning method using a computer for interactive conversation as claimed in claim 1, further comprising starting a listening test program and prompting the user to answer by means of pronunciation. 6. The method for learning a language using a computer for interactive conversation as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that the method further includes a picture prompt. 7. The language learning method of using a computer for interactive conversation as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the method also provides the design of a screen saver to change the displayed content. 8. The method for learning a language using a computer for interactive conversation as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the method also provides the design of a start-up screen to change the displayed content. 9. The method for learning a language using a computer for interactive conversation as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the method also provides the design of a desktop to change the displayed content.

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