Development of Perceptual Training Software for Realizing High Variability Training Paradigm and Self Adaptive Training Paradigm

摘要

The paper describes a development of perceptual training software which realizes a perceptual training paradigm to aid Japanese Mandarin Chinese learners with identifying nasal codas "-n" and "-ng". This training paradigm is novel from the viewpoint that it retains the primary advantages of High Variability Training Paradigm (HVTP) while adding a Self-Adaptive Training Paradigm (SATP), which can measure items that users are not good at and form personalized training for each user. Our developed educational software is based on the blend of the two training paradigms. The development of the pedagogical software with novel training paradigm is promising for a contribution of bridging the gap between research and practice in second language phonetic training.