Designing a Japanese idiom education support system for overseas´ students

The Japanese idioms are phrases which two or more words combine and have the different meaning from the original word. Therefore, learning a Japanese idiom is difficult for Japanese language learners. We are developing a Japanese Idiom Education Support System for Overseas´ Students to solve this problem. The main purposes of the system are to raise learner´s interest of learning idiom, and to teach the right usage of an idiom. The main functions of this system are the function of Japanese idiom retrieval and teaching Japanese idiom. The learner can input the idiom into the system and the system can retrieve and display an explanation of the idiom. And the learner can input the situation into the system and the system can retrieve the idiom. In this paper, the outline of Japanese Idiom Education Support System for Over-sea´s Students, the method of Japanese idiom retrieval, and the result of questionnaire is presented. A questionnaire did the survey on attitudes toward educational support system.