Kotoba-musubi †

Kotoba-musubi (word-connecting) is an educational game for elementary school students to study Japanese writing.
It has been developed in the research project with the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation.

In the game, players construct simple and complex sentences by connecting given word cards with particle marks.
The constructed sentences are automatically scored using large-scale language resources, allowing players to receive on-the-spot feedback, such as how to improve the use of a case marker.
We expect elementary school students to develop their vocabulary and reasoning skills in a ludic manner with the game.

Link †

For educational purposes, we have released the iOS, Android, and web applications of the game to the public for free and ad-free.
You can access them via the following URLs.

• iOS
• Android
• Web

Supplementary Material †

• Play Video

References †

• [1] Kazumasa Omura, Kei Kubo, Frederic Bergeron, and Sadao Kurohashi: Toward Game-Based Learning of Japanese Writing for Elementary School Students, In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2023) (accepted as a short paper).