Features
- many varieties of comprehension-type exercises are supported. Examples include:
- Reading comprehension - the student reads a passage of Japanese text and selects the correct answer(s) from a multiple choice list of written Japanese, or eliminates answers which are not consistent with the reading. To see an example, load the file called readcomp.htm as a Course module (ie. select Open Course module... from the Exercises menu, navigate to the Course module examples folder (inside the Apps folder in the Windows version of JWM) and open readcomp.htm).
- Aural comprehension 1 - the student listens to a Japanese audio recording and selects the correct answer(s) from a multiple choice list of written Japanese, or eliminates answers which are not consistent with the recording. To see an example, load the file called audcomp1.htm as a Course module.
- Aural comprehension 2 - the student reads a passage of Japanese text and selects the correct answer(s) from a multiple choice list of audio recordings, or eliminates audio recordings which are not consistent with the reading. To see an example, load the file called audcomp2.htm as a Course module.
- Aural comprehension 3 - the student clicks one or more areas of a picture to hear its sound (eg. each person shown in a picture may be assigned a different Japanese audio recording, each animal shown in a picture may make a different sound, etc) and selects the correct answer(s) from a multiple choice list of written Japanese, or eliminates answers which are not consistent with the recordings. Thus, you can create situation-based exercises such as people conversing in a shop, ordering in a restaurant, buying a train ticket, etc. To see an example, load the file called audcomp3.htm as a Course module.
- Visual comprehension 1 - the student reads a question in Japanese, looks at a set of pictures and selects the correct picture(s) to answer the question, or eliminates pictures which are not consistent with the question. To see an example, load the file called viscomp1.htm as a Course module.
- Visual comprehension 2 - the student looks at a picture and selects the correct answer(s) from a multiple choice list of written Japanese, or eliminates answers which are not consistent with the picture. To see an example, load the file called viscomp2.htm as a Course module.
- for visual comprehension exercises, either a Tick or Cross cursor can be assigned to a hotspot (area of a picture). When the user clicks a hotspot of a picture, a stamp is left to show that the area was selected. Clicking the hotspot a second time clears the stamp.
- for visual comprehension exercises, Answerdot locations can be set to show which picture hotspots were the correct choices when the page score is tallied.
- hyperlinks can be used to link to other HTML web pages.
- hotspots (areas of a picture) can be used to link to other HTML web pages.
- multiple choice checkboxes with a positive score value are marked with a green dot (to show the student the correct choices) when the page score is tallied.
- pages in a course module are individually tracked to ensure the student only tallies the score for each page once (this tracking supports up to 40 individual pages). This gives students the freedom to work through pages in any order.
- instructions can be interspersed with exercises to assist students in doing the exercises.
- scores are shown for both correct (green dot) and incorrect (red dot) answers.